Which is the better way to learn-formal or informational education? .
Both informational and formal educations provide knowledge and answers. Even in academic cases, students who don't have the sufficient perquisite that either learnt by experience or schooling would fall behind of other students. For example, no students can gain entrance to English One class unless they have the perquisites from a sub English one class or life. Despite informal education does provide answers, it educates by trial and error. Trial and error is one of the oldest learning forms. It is time consuming and exposes its students to risk. In contrast, formal education provides the correct answer and the essence of knowledge to students. Therefore, the informal education is not the better way for students to learn from.
Informal education is the general name for educational resources other then textbooks and teachers and this resource is dangerous. The educational authority and scholars work hard to make sure that they provide the true and correct answers in formal education material. In contrast, informal materials come from all sources but mostly from medias or people. The danger of that is the medias and people aren't meant to educate. Medias are designed to entrain people. People who aren't teacher aren't sophisticated and professional enough to teach. For example, Crime Scene Investigation programs (CSI) usually present their audiences to reality of life - death and crimes but they are only designed to entering people. People can't learn life or how to be a cop just by watching CSI. Without getting in to the issue how much does media influence people, there are people taking media as the learning source. In addition, most people would know the answer to 2+2. However, most people wouldn't know how to interpret the principle of this equation. Without knowing principles, people lock them self out of the knowledge pool because all advanced knowledge is built on simpler principle.