For many people, education is about knowledge: What it is, and how it is
to be acquired by succeeding generations of learners, and thus by succeeding
generations of humanity. Politically, education has been a perennial hot topic,
because those who control knowledge have potential access on privilege and (1)______
wealth. However, this idea which knowledge is some kind of commodity to (2)______
be traded in intellectual marketplaces known as schools and universities are (3)______
the only one of many characterizations. Attempting to define what it is to (4)______
know has preoccupied philosophers just as many as attempting to answer the (5)______
question of what it is to be. For much of the past century, there has been a
passionate debate, in Western educational contexts at least, between those
who believe that the function of educational system is the transmission of a (6)______
received body of facts, values, and procedures for conceptualizing and adding
to that body of knowledge, yet those who believe that the function of an edu- (7)______
cational system is to create the conditions whereby learners might generate
one’s own skills and knowledge. It is a debate between those who believe that (8)______
education is a matter of making meaning of the learners on the one hand, and (9)______
those who believe that the function of education is to facilitate the process
whereby learner make their own meaning, on the other hand. (10)______