Education is usually considered as an intentional and goal oriented activity on behalf of the educator. However there are broader concepts of education (of rearing and teaching) taking into consideration also unintentional impact of individuals, groups and the surroundings on the personality of the learner. This sets a serious problem for pedagogy and andragogy because we lose the clear threshold between education and socialization. This also complicates distinguishing between pedagogy, andragogy, sociology, social psychology, psychology, cultural and social anthropology and other social and humanistic sciences. The objective of this thesis is to present some specifics and models of functional education and various issues connected with it.