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Synopsis Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation. As society becomes ever more complex and schools become ever more institutionalized, educational experience becomes less directly related to daily life, less a matter of showing and learning in the context of the present day world, and more abstracted from practice, more a matter of distilling, telling, and learning things out of context. This concentration of learning in a formal atmosphere allows children to learn far more of their culture than they are able to do by merely observing and imitating. This work, organised in two volumes, consists of total forty seven chapters. The material encompasses all important issues pertaining to education in general and teaching aspect of education in particular. Besides the academic worth, this work will be informative and useful for educationists and policy-makers in the field.