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EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet

What is education for? Education—the process of facilitating learning—has been an integral part of human societies since before we were even human. After all, humans are not the only species that transmits knowledge from one individual to another. Chimpanzees and dolphins, for example, both teach their young specialized foraging and hunting techniques that are known only to their communities and pods. Learning has been documented in numerous species, even in plants and bacteria. Because learning is a natural part of being alive—and increases the odds of staying alive—at its very root, the role of education may be to facilitate survival, both for the individual that is learning and for the social group (and species) of which it is a part.