Talk:Education

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 09:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that it is controversial whether indoctrination is a form of education? Source:
  • ALT1: ... that the invention of writing caused a shift from informal to formal education? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that in 1948, the United Nations recognized education as a fundamental human right? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Yanomamö:_The_Fierce_People
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References

Sources

• Bussey, Marcus; Inayatullah, Sohail; Milojević, Ivana (1 January 2008). Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds. BRILL. p. 92. ISBN 978-90-8790-513-2.
• Shelley, Fred M. (27 September 2022). Examining Education around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4408-6448-3.
• Siegel, Harvey; Phillips, D.C.; Callan, Eamonn (2018). "Philosophy of Education". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 31 August 2023.

Improved to Good Article status by Phlsph7 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Education; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article meets all the requirements for a DYK. The hooks are interesting, and the article is a pleasant read. I personally find ALT2 to be the most interesting, but I couldn't access its source, so I'm going to AGF on that one. Happy to pass the nomination. Congratulations! — Golden ^talk 10:42, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

I'm fine with using ALT2. The page from the source is available online at : In 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which education was recognized explicitly as a human right. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Teaching Pedagogy for Service-Based Learning Engineering Design Challenges

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 September 2025 and 28 November 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Smoha1234.

— Assignment last updated by Smoha1234 (talk) 01:16, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Likely AI-generated edits

Hi - I have tagged this article as likely containing AI generated text. This specifically concerns the long series of March 2024 copyedits; if you are not this person I am not talking about your edits. These edits read exactly like most AI copyedits from GPT-4 (in use in ChatGPT prior to May 2024) read, see WP:AISIGNS for details (particularly vocabulary, which is the main sign here)

The primary issue with this edit, which is more of a rewrite than a copyedit, is introducing promotional tone, synthesis/WP:OR, and wordiness. A small sampling (all examples derived from the rewrite but much of the rewrite persists in the current version):

• Old: how people learn to prepare a dish by cooking together. => New: [...] individuals mastering cooking skills through shared culinary experiences. This reads like a parody.
• Old: School infrastructure also influences educational success. => New: School infrastructure also plays a crucial role in educational success. AI text very frequently puffs up the importance of things, claiming that everything plays a crucial/key/pivotal role. This is a textbook example of that.
• Old: [...] including new forms of education such as massive open online courses => New: Moreover, education can embrace innovative forms such as massive open online courses to prepare individuals for emerging challenges and opportunities. Promotional tone not present in original text.
• Old: Additionally, they may be unable to afford tuition at prestigious schools and are more likely to attend schools in poorer areas. => New: Financial constraints may also prevent attendance at prestigious schools, leading to enrollment in institutions located in economically disadvantaged areas. This changes the meaning by introducing a cause-effect relationship not present in the original text: being unable to afford tuition does not necessary lead to attending schools in poorer areas; this is a correlation, not a causation.
• Old: Due to these factors, social inequalities on the level of the parents are often reproduced in the children. => New: [...] contributing to a cycle of social inequality that persists across generations. - Tacks on synthesis at the end.

I stopped halfway through but this needs a full review, especially for source-to-text integrity issues, as there is a lot of meaning-changing and synthesis going on. Gnomingstuff (talk) 17:46, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey Gnomingstuff and thanks for looking through those revisions. I agree that many of the changes are problematic. I'll try to restore some earlier formulations and weave them in with the changes that happened afterwards were possible. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:15, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, I hope I got the main parts. I used the text from this revision, just before the copyedits. I also implemented changes that happend after those copyedits, such as the division of the history section into several subsections, and additions or removals of passages and sources. I hope I didn't miss any significant ones. I removed the maintenance tag. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:21, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Awesome, thank you! Gnomingstuff (talk) 22:37, 30 January 2026 (UTC)