[1] The term even include customized-learning based on individual student interests within a curriculum inside a regular classroom, but is not limited to that setting.
[2] It can refer to various forms of alternative education, such as unschooling or homeschooling, autodidacticism (self-teaching), and youth work.
[3] Informal education can help individuals learn to react to and control different situations and settings.
[8] The knowledge and practices that are important to the community are generally passed down through the sharing of memories and participation in cultural activities.
Oral traditions are used to teach children about history and morals as well as other forms of culture and practical skills for survival.
In northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, the children of the Maasai pastoralists learn skills such as "where to find water and green shrubs that can be fed to young calves" in case of drought.
Onipede, a Yoruba name in Nigeria, suggests that the child was born soon after the death of a family member.