Nelaturu Sreekanth ReddyAIR 151 · CSE 2024 · 173 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Education is a social process which imparts knowledge, skills, attitudes and shapes social consciousness of individuals.
Body · points
Education as a tool of social change.
→ Education promotes inter and intra generational social mobility. [Ex:] Son of a farmer becoming an I.A.S officer
→ Education empower women to take own decisions on various aspects challenging the patriarchal norms
→ Education will help to question the traditional negative values and promote modern liberal and secular values
Challenges of Commercialisation of Education
→ According to marxist thinker, [Althusser], education is part of ideological apparatus of state which promotes high class ideology against social change
→ According to [Giddens], commercialisation is leading to information poverty of marginalised
→ Commercialisation leading to huge disparities between public and private education
Ex: ASER Report by PRATHAM NGO
→ According to [Jean Dreze], commercialisation of education strengthens elite position.
Close · a way forward
Therefore policies like National Education policy 2020, Right to Education act etc. should be implemented with letter and spirit which will break the shackles of commercial education by decentralisation of knowledge.