Ability to share effectively in adult activities, depends upon a prior training given with this end in view. The task of teaching certain things is delegated to a special group of persons. One major problem, with which the philosophy of education has to cope, is the method of keeping a proper balance between informal and formal, incidental and intentional, modes of education. To summarize, the very nature of life is to strive to continue being. Since this continuance can be secured only by constant renewals, life is a self-renewing process.
Education is crucial to social life.
This education consists in transmission through communication. Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.