Philosophy

1. Functions of education with regard to
culture – preservation, transformation and
transmission

2. Education
Education in it’s general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills and habits of
a group of are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or
research

3. Culture
The Latin word “CULTURA” means ‘to cultivate’ or cultivating the mind. Culture is a word for
people’s ‘ way of life’, meaning the way they do things. Different groups of people may have
different cultures.

4. Functions of education with regard to
culture
◦ The main function of the educational system is to transmit the culture heritage to the new
generations.
◦ Culture can be developed through education
◦ Education brings the desirable change in both the culture and values for the progress and
development of the society
◦ The influential facts of education on culture are: preservation of culture, transmission of
culture, equips main to adapt to changing cultural patterns, moulding the personality,
restoring unity of mankind through diffusion of culture and removing cultural lag.

5. Preservation of education
◦ It is the primary aim of education
◦ Percy Nunn has emphasised the conservative function of education.
◦ The special function of nation’s school according to him is to consolidate it’s spiritual strength,
to maintain it’s historic continuity, to secure it’s past achievements and to guarantee it’s future

6. Transformation of culture
◦ The primary task of education is to make children adopt themselves to the contemporary
culture and familiarize them with the past.
◦ Education must enable one to lift the mind from blind alleys.
◦ It must create a favourable attitude in them for positive changes in life
◦ New pattern of culture should be evolved so as to ensure the good of all rather than the
good of majority conservatism should give way to liberalism and schools that are
knowledge shops should be converted into creative workshops and laboratories for the
pupils and teachers to carry on their experiments with new ideas
◦ The method and the whole school plant must be geared to suit this aim of transformation
of culture

7. Transmission of culture
◦ The function of education is to mould the individual in the matrix of society, in accordance
with it’s customs and traditions
◦ Durkheim has said, education is the influence exercised by adult generation on those that are
not yet ready for social life.
◦ Its object is to arouse and to develop in the child a certain number of physical, intellectual and
moral states which are demanded of him by both the political society as a whole and the
special MILIEU for which he is specifically destined.

8. Conclusion
Education and culture are intimately and integrally connected. The cultural pattern of
a country conditions it’s educational pattern. Both culture and education play an
equally significant role in helping the individual in making his proper modification in
society

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