Education

Just as a culture influences education, in the same way education also influences the culture of a country. There are four basic ways that education influences a culture.

• First, education preserves a culture. Each country has a distinct culture and education is the most common means through which this task can be accomplished.
• Second, education transmits culture. The process of preservation includes the process of transmission from one generation to another.
• Third, education develops culture. The function of education is to bring needed and desirable change for progress and continued development of a culture. Education has the potential to modify cultural processes as they become outdated.
• And fourth, education upholds the continuity of culture. Cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors are established and reinforced in a school's curriculum.

Education reflects the social, cultural, and political conditions prevailing outside of school, but it also has the seeds of change and can keep up with the ever changing world. School is both a place of knowledge, and a society in miniature.