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This paper presents a few ideas, reflections and interrogations regarding education and its relationship with science, in a knowledge-based society, seeking possible answers to questions such as: (1) Is education possible without cognition (scientific knowledge)? Or vice versa? The access to authentical knowledge can be achieved from outside the school? (2) What is the place and role of education and cognition in the contemporary society? (3) How can the school, as a fundamental institution of education, production and knowledge transmitter, be more attractive? (4) What should education (through school) offer beyond the release and assimilation of knowledge? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological education is part of the general culture of the students helping to open horizon for knowledge and to stimulate creativity, to their integration in the social, economic and cultural society. Through its content, technological Education involves the student in discovering the environment in which he lives, it provides knowledge about the material world and spiritual, it initiates the production of simple, useful, necessary, a result of imagination and of his creative thinking. The paper deals with the importance of education and vocational training in the knowledge society by developing the relationship between knowledge-based economy and knowledge society. Investing in education is the most profitable way for ensuring qualified work force and retraining. Technological education is presented as a discipline that is found in all schools in European countries, being forced to keep pace with developing technology and new technologies specific to the knowledge society. In this sense, the work brings into focus the scope and general objectives of the technological Education of the knowledge society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]