Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Sciences de l'education)

In the daily life, we learn in very differents kind of situation. An educational situation is a moment where we learn something new like a new skill, a new capacity or new knowledges. There are two types of educational situations. The first one is a formal situation, when the education is made by the institution in a time and place given. The second type of situation is more informal: it's when we learn something in the moment of a situation like in a poney-club, or when we try to learn something with a friend. But, each of these two situations can be analyzed in a way more microscopic to know if the learning situation is optimal or not to really learn something. There can be many variables like the hour of the day (for exemple, if there it's 14h, maybe it's time to go to bed for the break), the impact of people's comportment on the situation, the impact of services around the situation...
So there is always a context and no situation for me is better than an other because all can be good and fastly became complicated. For example, we can be in the university classes and listen but in a moment, someone begin to speak with his neighbor and more and more persons slowly begin to make the same thing and finally, it become impossible to follow and listen the professor. So we can see with this example that even if we are in a formal situation, we are not going to learn something each time we go in class. Finally, we think that the informal educational situations are not optimal but sometimes, learn something out the school can be more useful. It finally depends on the context of the situation.