Education refers to the programmed and often militarized knowledge and skills provided by the State and individuals in the name of the market, necessary for the integration of individuals into society and the mechanism of labor division, but mainly necessary for securing a job in order to ensure the survival and advancement of individuals in the social hierarchy.

Education is what shapes the character of individuals based on established values, ethical, cultural, and religious principles and rules. Depending on the quality of these principles and rules, one could consider education to be value-neutral and distinguish between good and bad pedagogy, especially in times of devaluation or reversal of values, immorality, atheism, misanthropy, and wickedness. Education does not exclude education from its content but is not exhausted by it. Moreover, the absence of education does not invalidate its content, which is why an illiterate person can also have education.