1. Chapter 14, Education Key Terms

2. education Those experiences that train, discipline, and develop the mental and physical potential of the maturing person. informal education Education that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way.

3. formal education A systematic, purposeful, planned effort intended to impart specific skills and modes of thought. functionally illiterate A term describing people who do not possess the level of reading, writing, and calculating skills to adapt to the society in which they live.

4. illiteracy The inability to understand and use a symbol system, whether it is based on sounds, letters, numbers, pictographs, or some other type of character. formal curriculum The various subjects such as mathematics, science, English, reading, physical education, and so on.

5. hidden curriculum All the things that students learn along with the subject matter. self-fulfilling prophecy A concept that begins with a false definition of a situation, which people assume to be accurate and thus behave as if it were true. The misguided behavior produces responses that confirm that false definition.