Justify in your own words mass media a formal agency of education
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A mass medium may be defined as any means, agency or instrument through which ideas, attitudes, impressions or images are simultaneously communicated to a large number of people. Such media forms include not only the print and electronic forms such as newspaper, magazines, radio, television, films etc. but also a wide range of other forms such as comics, drama, puppet shows, graffiti and music.Mass Media are a popular non-formal agency of education. Although the mass media have been widely utilised in adult education, development activities, agriculture and family planning, yet their use for formal education, that is, for primary, secondary or tertiary education has hardly been systematic or effective.
However fact remains, if mass media are integrated with the total system of education, they can help in streamlining work in the fields of primary education, adult education, providing educational opportunities for continuing education, education of special groups of children and so on.
Home and school, in their own way and with their own methods, help in this direction. Each of these two agencies helps in direct communication between one individual and the others. There are other ways also through which important messages are conveyed to a large section of people one and at the same time. For example, the Prime Minister of a country wants to address the whole nation. He has to use a means, agency or mode which can help him to communicate his message to the whole nation. He may do so through newspaper, radio or television. Such means, together, are called mass-media
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