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Contributing to Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Wikibooks, is an educational opportunity in the fullest sense, developing sophisticated collaboration, scholarly writing and critical thinking skills at the same time as subject knowledge. Improving an article can be a demanding project in either formal and informal education, for a talented student or a whole class.

Wikimedia UK is working with some of the country's most respected and innovative institutions to explore how Wikimedia projects can benefit UK education. In partnership with universities and support bodies, we are gradually establishing Wikimedia as part of the landscape of higher education, secondary education, and lifelong learning.

The Wikimedia Foundation has an extensive set of educator resources, including reasons to use Wikipedia, case studies and teaching materials.

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-<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em">[[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.svg|100px|Books are the bricks and mortar of education]]
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-</div>'''[[Education]]''' [[List of education topics|encompasses]] [[teaching]] and [[learning]] specific [[skill]]s, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of [[knowledge]], good [[judgement]] and [[wisdom]].  Education has as one of its fundamental goals the imparting of [[culture]] from generation to generation (see [[socialization]]).  Education is 'to draw out'.  This means facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual.
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+Contributing to Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Wikibooks, is an educational opportunity in the fullest sense, developing sophisticated collaboration, scholarly writing and critical thinking skills at the same time as subject knowledge. Improving an article can be a demanding project in either formal and informal education, for a talented student or a whole class.
-The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents' playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child's development. For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily [[personal life | life]] provide far more instruction than does formal [[school]]ing (thus [[Mark Twain]]'s admonition to "never let school interfere with your education"). [[Family]] members may have a profound educational effect &mdash; often more profound than they realize &mdash; though family teaching may function very informally; but formality only proves the education outside the family that is also being taught.
+'''Wikimedia UK is working with some of the country's most respected and innovative institutions to explore how Wikimedia projects can benefit UK education. In partnership with universities and support bodies, we are gradually establishing Wikimedia as part of the landscape of higher education, secondary education, and lifelong learning.'''
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+The Wikimedia Foundation has [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/For_educators an extensive set of educator resources], including [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reasons_to_use_Wikipedia reasons to use Wikipedia], [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Case_Studies case studies] and [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Materials_for_Teaching teaching materials].
-'''''More about... [[education]] and its [[:category:educators|educators]], [[:category:history of education|history]], [[philosophy of education|philosophy]], [[educational psychology|psychology]], [[Educational technology|technology]]'''''
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