1. PHILOSOPHY, EDUCATION AND MEANINGFUL LEARNING Jim Kidd

2. Philosophy contains a comprehensive view for developing an organized groundwork for education.

3. Education is the sharing of academic and life skills, from one person to another, including social, cultural and intellectual continuity.

4. It is a way of providing skills, abilities and understanding to develop things in light of changing conditions.

5. Meaningful learning is a comprehensive understanding making connections between new information and prior knowledge. It is recognizing relationships.

6. Organization is making connections among various pieces of new information. We remember more when we organize it.

7. Elaboration is using prior knowledge to expand on a new idea. This is going beyond information that was actually presented.