Society influences education in many ways. It shapes the curriculum, sets standards for learning, and provides resources for schools. Society also influences by influencing the ways in which teachers teach, the ways in which students learn, and the ways in which educational systems are organized and funded.
Society plays a significant role in education. It can influence it both ways, positively and negatively. The values, morals, and principles of a society will create an education system that upholds the same values, morals, and principles.
Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation. Children—whether conceived among New Guinea tribespeople, the Renaissance Florentines, or the middle classes of Manhattan—are born without culture.
Education is a social institution which is often seen as a positive pathway towards development of self and gaining knowledge about the world around us, facts, different cultures, concepts, etc. however, since it is a social institution, one cannot separate that fact that it will operate in relation to the other social institutions of the society.
