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Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home.

Home education is usually conducted by a parent or tutor.

Many families that start out with a formal school structure at home often switch to less formal ways of imparting education outside of school.

"Homeschooling" is the term commonly used in North America, whereas "home education" is more commonly used in the United Kingdom, elsewhere in Europe, and in many Commonwealth countries.

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research.

Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves.

Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.

The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM, previously SMET) is a term that refers to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The term is typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve competitiveness in science and technology development.

It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.

Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.

Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results.

There also exists natural experimental studies.

or pupil is a learner or someone who attends an educational institution.

In Britain those attending university are termed "students".

In the United States, and more recently also in Britain, the term "student" is applied to both categories.

In its widest use, student is used for anyone who is learning, including mid-career adults who are taking vocational education or returning to university.

When speaking about learning outside an institution, "student" is also used to refer to someone who is learning a topic or who is "a student of" a certain topic or person.