Discuss how education and social change are inter relate with each other
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“Change your thoughts and you change your world” - Norman Vincent Peale
“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life”
The effectiveness of organised activities of a society depends on the cooperation and exchange of idea.
Many of the sociologists and social thinkers are of the view that social change and cultural change are one.
They believe that social changes take place as a result of cultural changes and so they think that they do not differ from one another.
Education as a flame or light of knowledge which dispelled the darkness of ignorance. The fact is that social change and cultural change may be related and education is the path to these changes
Education can transform society by providing opportunities and experiences through which the individual can cultivate himself for adjustment with the emerging needs and the changing society.
A sound social progress needs careful planning in every aspect of life– social, cultural, economic and political. Education must be planned in a manner which is in keeping with the needs and aim the people as a whole