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Abstract
Education enables a man to acquire virtue, by making him social, interactive, and disciplined; it opens the vistas of learning by helping him better absorb information and sharing the same, thus making him humane, and the central element in the social structure. Education is considered the most important ‘ideological state apparatus’ devised by the ruling classes to ensure that the society largely conforms to their ideas and interests. Education is seen as a major vector in society, but that it is largely allocated a conservative role, since its main function is in the socialization of the young and the maintenance of the social order. In the traditional educational system the role of education was to transmit a fixed way of life to the students as society itself was an unchanging and static entity. However, in this modern context, education is seen as an instrument of social change brought about by changing man’s attitude and outlook. In this paper, the authors tried to display the importance of education as an agent of change in this rapid changing world as well as the relationship between education and the social change.