Sleight's distinction between training and education

¶ … Sleignt's Assertions Regarding Education and Training.

Sleight asserts that "training is different from education."

What is your response to this statement?

Sleight argues that training is different from education by saying that training teachers a person to perform a specific task while education involved teaching others a more general instruction in history and knowledge. At first, this statement strikes me as untrue as I think of my educational experiences in which I have learned a specific task, especially quantitative tasks such as performing a certain type of math technique. After reading Sleight, however, I understand how different training is from education. Education requires prerequisites that training does not such as the desire to learn comprehensive facts and histories and how to apply them. Training does not require a need to analyze or apply, or even read and write, but rather just a need to view and copy, and at times transfer, as is needed in classroom training. .

3. Why or why not?

I understand this distinction because of the goals that education and training try to accomplish. Education has the goal of producing responsible members of society that can function in a career, while training is simply responsible for company economics. Although it can be manifested in a variety of methods, one can observe that the goal of training is simply adequate completion of a task. Education, however will generally ask students to apply their knowledge to a larger scheme. Thus, the difference between education and training is made clear by the differences in goals.