As learning is the basis of knowledge, education is the structure from which knowledge flows. University education includes teaching, research, and social services activities, and it includes both the undergraduate level (sometimes referred to as tertiary education ) and the graduate (or postgraduate) level (sometimes referred to as graduate school ). Some universities are composed of several colleges.

Secondary education has a longer history in Europe, where grammar schools or academies date from as early as the 6th century, a in the form of public schools , fee-paying schools , or charitable educational foundations, which themselves date even further back.

The National Energy Education Development Project promotes an energy conscious and educated society by creating effective networks of students, educators, business, government and community leaders to design and deliver objective, multi-sided energy education programs.

It is informed primarily by psychology , bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology Educational psychology, in turn, informs a wide range of specialties within educational studies, including instructional design , educational technology , curriculum development, organizational learning , special education and classroom management Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks (Lucas, Blazek, & Raley, 2006).

As a state chapter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), the Professional Association of Colorado Educators (PACE) is a statewide non-union, professional educators’ organization, advancing the profession by offering a modern approach to teacher representation and educational advocacy, as well as promoting professionalism, collaboration and excellence without a partisan agenda.