Sudhir KumarAIR 42 · CSE 2017 · 296 wordsTheir whole copy
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Education is indispensable to individual and society to advance all accumulated knowledge, customs, practices, norms. It is the greatest way of socialization into learner's culture - to make children learn the 'accepted behaviour'. Therefore, education helps to inculcate values, norms, skills that enable to develop the personality and social system.
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Durkheim defined education as action exercised by older generations upon those who are not yet ready for social life. Its object is to awaken and develop in child those
physical, intellectual and moral states required by society. Thus education is all about learning to fit in society.
As Mead says that education is an induction into learner's culture. It is a deliberate instruction through which we acquire a large part of social, technical skills. It is as old as social life and the very reason for its sustenance and stability, solidarity.
Education is a process to transfer social heritage of a group inter-generationally.
Education is a part of total social system. It both reflects and influences social and cultural order of which it is a part. It is a conscious training to maintain status quo.
Marxists would say that it is a tool in capitalists' hand to advance their power hierarchy and maintain it, therefore curriculum is designed to promote free trade.
Phenomenologists view education as a tool for people to make understanding of happenings and also their own actions and motives.
A conventional education inhibits drastic social
change. However, modernists like Ritzer say that education is becoming a tool of social change in globalized world, with enlightening people about true social conditions and varied knowledge.
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Thus education is a sub-system within system. It has its own status and roles and primary tool of socialization of adults and is thus a functional pre-requisite to maintain stability.