ABSTRACT
In being centrally concerned with the transmission of knowledge in a formalised way, education must aim to ensure that its charges, on
leaving their particular institutions, know certain things that they did not know on arrival, and which they did not pick up elsewhere in the interim. It would thus appear that education, in helping people to gain knowledge of the world, embodies three particular functions. It selects, from the infinite body of knowledge, packages that are thought to be particularly worth knowing. It then provides the means and resources whereby those things can be approached and known. And finally, it applies pedagogical expertise in an attempt to ensure that these things are learnt and known.
