Social Function of Education

Education is a social process through which communities transmit their values, beliefs, and practices to the young, ensuring social continuity and renewal through shared experience.

Education is presented as a necessity for group survival, transmitting shared aims, beliefs, and practices through communication.

Education is presented as the essential mechanism for preserving and perpetuating the social group's characteristic life.

Dewey asserts that society continues to exist through transmission and communication, and that all genuine social life is educative, highlighting the social function of education beyond formal schooling.

Dewey argues that education's ultimate value lies in its effect on conscious experience and social disposition, and that schooling must avoid losing sight of permanent social interests.