To satisfy the demands of pressure groups school curricula are fragmented into a bewildering array of separate subjects. Students spend their time switching from one subject to another each of which is presented as a separate entity with little relation to the others. Since we are all products of this subject system of schooling and since the system is always labelled 'education' it is understandable that we should confuse this pedagogical processing with education. Even such status terms as 'higher education' are easily confused with the specialised type of pedagogical processing the universities dispense. Processing puts pre-determined skills, attitudes and beliefs into the students.
Education brings potentials out of students.
While processing is a putting in, education is a bringing out. While processing repeats the past, education explores the unknown future. The potentials of students are highly individualised. They are unique to the particular student and education will not bring the same potentials out of each student. Processing concentrates upon what can be put into all students alike.