The term “education”, usually used in French since XVe century, revêt of the various significances. It often indicates, in the common language, the knowledge of the uses of a company: one speaks then about “good education”.

More frequently still, education is comparable with teaching.    

The etymology helps with better defining the term: education comes from the Latin word educatio, which means “to raise”, “to bring to full sound development” an animal, a plant or an human being. In fact, education is the whole of the means - general knowledge, language and techniques of communication, rules morals, etc - which a company puts at the disposal of its members in order to develop their personality by taking share with the collective life.

Thus conceived, education is the axis of the socialization of the individuals, i.e. the process by which the latter are integrated into their company, from which they learn how to accept the culture, values and standards. It is thus a question of the passage of being it biological which is the child with the social being. Education initially concerns the young people, whom it helps to arrive at the state of adult.