The document discusses the functions of education with regard to culture, including preservation, transformation, and transmission of culture from one generation to the next. It notes that education plays an important role in preserving cultural heritage through teaching, while also enabling cultural change and progress through critical evaluation and new ideas. Education both shapes individuals according to existing cultural customs but also transforms culture by developing new patterns and ensuring social change benefits all.

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PHILOSOPHY ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
WITH REGARD TO CULTURE –
PRESERVATION,
TRANSFORMATION AND
TRANSMISSION
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
GENERATION THROUGH TEACHING, TRAINING, OR RESEARCH

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CULTURE
THE LATIN WORD “CULTURA”MEANS ‘TO CULTIVATE ‘OR
CULTIVATING THE MIND. CULTURE IS A WORD FOR PEOPLES
‘WAY OF LIFE’, MEANING THE WAY THEY DO THINGS. DIFFERENT
GROUPS OF PEOPLE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT CULTURES.
FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION WITH REGARD TO CULTURE
EDUCATION PLAYS A ROLE IN TRAMS MISSION OF CULTURE.
THIS IS ACHIEVED WHEN PRESERVATION IS DONE FROM ONE
GENERATION TO ANOTHER. CULTURE CAN POTENTIALLY HAVE
A GREAT IMPACT ON EDUCATION AS WELL AS SOCIAL CHANGE.
CULTURE IS THE SOCIAL CHANGE OF ANY CHARACTER IN
SOCIETY. THE MAIN FUNCTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
IS TO TRANSMIT THE CULTURE HERITAGE TO THE NEW
GENERATIONS. BUT IN A CHANGING SOCIETY THESE KEEP TO
CHANGING FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION AND THE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN SUCH A SOCIETY MUST NOT ONLY
TRANSMIT THE CULTURE HERITAGE. CULTURE CAN BE

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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,
PROMOTION 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.
CULTURE PAVES THE WAY FOR EDUCATION WHILE EDUCATION
IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FLAVOURING THE CULTURAL VALUES IN
THE LIFE
PRESERVATION OF CULTURE
PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IS THE PRIMARY AIM OF
EDUCATION.IF EDUCATION WERE NOT AN AGENCY OF
CULTURAL CONSERVATION THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
ANY CULTURAL HERITAGE AT ALL. PERCY NUNN HAS

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EMPHASISED THE CONSERVATIVE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION.
THE SPECIAL FUNCTION OF A 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

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EDUCATION WITH REFERENCE TO TRANSFORMATION OF
CULTURE AND TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE
CULTURE IS THE BEHAVIOR PATTERN OF A GROUP.
EDUCATION IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL
MODIFIES HIS BEHAVIOR. THERE EXISTS AN INTIMATE
RELATION BETWEEN CULTURE AND EDUCATION
TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE:THE PRIMARY TASK OF
EDUCATION IS TO MAKE CHILDREN ADOPT THEMSELVES TO THE
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND FAMILIARISE THEM WITH THE
PAST. WE MUST GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF
EXPRESSION, OR CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THOSE CUSTOMS AND
BELIEFS. TEACHER THEM TO FEEL THE COMMON FACTORS IN
EACH AND EVERY CULTURE. EDUCATION MUST ENABLE ON TO
LIFT THE MIND FROM BLIND ALLEYS. IT MUST TEACH THEN TO
DISPEL ERROR AND DISCOVER TRUTH. IT MUST CREATE A
FAVOURABLE ATTITUDE IN THEM FOR POSITIVE CHANGES IN

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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 WORKSHOP AND LABORATORIES FOR THE PUPILS AND
TEACHERS TO CARRY ON THEIR EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW IDEAS.
THE CURRICULUM, THE METHOD AND THE ALL SCHOOL PLANT
MUST BE GEARED TO SUIT THIS AIM OF TRANSFORMATION OF
CULTURE
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. THE
FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION ARE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE.
DURKHEIM HAS SAID, “EDUCATION IS THE INFLUENCE EXERCISED
BY ADULT GENERATION ON THOSE THAT ARE NOT YET READY FOR
SOCIAL LIFE. IT’S 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

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POLITICAL SOCIETY AS A WHOLE AND THE SPECIAL MILIEU FOR
WHICH HE IS SPECIFICALLY DESTINED”.
CONCLUSION
EDUCATION AND CULTURE ARE INTIMATELY AND INTEGRALLY
CONNECTED. THE CULTURAL PATTERN OF A COUNTY CONDITIONS
IT'S EDUCATIONAL PATTERN. BOTH CULTURE AND EDUCATION
PLAY AND EQUALLY SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN HELPING THE
INDIVIDUAL IN MAKING HIS PROPER MODIFICATION IN SOCIETY.
REFERENCE
 WWW.RESEARCHGATE.NET
 WWW.QUORA.COM
 WWW.ACADEMIA.EDU