Fundamentals of Extension Education

Meaning of Extension Education

• The word ‘Extension’ is derived from the Latin roots, ‘tensio’ meaning stretching and 'ex' meaning out. Extension education means that type of education which is stretched out into the villages and fields beyond the limits of the schools and colleges to which the formal type of education is normally confined.
• That the word extension came to be used in this sense originally in USA is evident from the meaning given to it in “Webster’s Dictionary” as a “branch of a University for students who cannot attend the University proper.
• In other words, the word ‘Extension’ used in this context signifies an out –of –school system of education. And the word extension is commonly to understand and “to extend” the new ideas, practices.