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Examine the role of education in cultural continuity. In the context of Indian society, how would you reconcile this with the demand for social change?

  • UPSC 1988
  • Education System and Social Change

Education is conservative by design and transformative by consequence. Its first task is to carry a culture across the break between generations; its second, in a constitutional democracy, is to dismantle parts of what it carries. The Indian question is how one institution does both.

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  • Education as the vehicle of cultural continuity
  • The demand for change
  • Reconciling the two
  • Conclusion

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