Education: A Culture-Acquirement Beyond Textbook-Study

Sinan Çaya 
(Marmara University, Turkey)

Abstract: Education shapes a child’s personality and mentality while filling his mind with information. Education, eventually makes the student gain and keep new and desired patterns of behavior. The basics of a given education program are indeed transmitted from the essential textbooks via the steady efforts of the faculty members, who undertake the roles of intermediaries. Nevertheless; beyond and above the official knowledge represented by the textbooks, the educative climate in its entirety (library, social facilities, gymnasiums, the human environment of fellow-students and teaching staff etc.) provides the cultural essence of one’s upbringing, which is at least as important as the domain of sheer knowledge.

Key words: education, educative, teacher, professor, student, role model, institution