GROUP 2

FUNCTIONS AND
IMPORTANCE OF
EDUCATION
UNDERSTANDING INPOLITICS:
CULTURE, SOCIETY AND THE MODULE 8

SOCIETY
TARGET
Education cultivates a country's
economy and society, therefore, it
is the milestone of a nation's
progress. Education provides
knowledge and skills to the
population.
In the previous lesson, you were
able to explain the forms and
functions of state and non-state
institution wherein it gives a way
in providing our society.
SPECIFIC LEARNINGS
AND OBJECTIVES
Objective 1-2 Objective 3-4
1. defi ne 3. give the
education; functions and
importance of
2. trace and education in the
describe the society; and
educational
system of the 4. evaluate how
Philippines; education
functions and
aff ects society .
 WHAT IS
Education EDUCATION?
• Education is the social institution
through which society provides its
members with important
knowledge, including basic facts,
job skills, and cultural norms and
values (Macionis, 2012).
• Education is the acquisition of
knowledge, habits, skills, and
abilities through instruction and
training or through self-activity. It
is systematic training of the
moral and intellectual faculties of
the mind. It is the process of
transmitting to the young, the
vital cultural heritage of a group.
 WHAT IS
EDUCATION?
• Education is the transmission of
knowledge, skills, and character traits. Its
precise defi nition is disputed and there
are disagreements about what the aims of
education are and to what extent
education is diff erent from indoctrination
by fostering critical thinking. Vision
• the act or process of imparting or
acquiring general knowledge, developing
the powers of reasoning and judgment,
and generally of preparing oneself or
others intellectually for mature life.
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE
PHILIPPINES
Ed ucation is com pulsory for all child ren, and free
pub lic ed ucation is p rovid ed for p re-elementary,
elementary, and hig h school. S chooling is d ivided
into p re-elementary school, primary ed ucation,
called elementary school, and second ary
ed ucation, d ivided into junior hig h school and
senior hig h school.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
01
a. c.
FORMAL EDUCATION
This refers to the hierarchically structured,
chronologically graded educational system from
primary school to the university. Formal education
shall correspond to the following levels in basic
education:

a. Elementary Education
b. Secondary Education
c. Tertriary Education
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
01
a. c.
FORMAL EDUCATION
a. Elementary Educatio n

Involves compulsory, formal education primarily

concerned with providing basic education, and usually
corresponds to a traditional six grades or seven
grades, and in addition, to preschool programs. Such
preschool education normally consists of kindergarten
schooling but may cover other preparatory courses as
well .
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
01
a. c.
FORMAL EDUCATION
b. Secondary Educatio n
Secondary education, public schools and
private schools, is concerned primarily with
continuing basic education of the elementary
level and expanding it to include the learning
of employable, gainful skills, usually
corresponding to four years of junior high
school and two years of senior high school.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
01
a. c.
FORMAL EDUCATION
c. Tertiary Educatio n

Institutions of higher education may be classifi ed

as either public or private college or university,
and public institutions of higher education may
further be subdivided into two types; state
universities and colleges and local colleges and
universities.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
02
a. c.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
It refers to any organized educational
activity outside the established formal
system to provide selected types of
learning to a segment of the population.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
03
a. c.
INFORMAL EDUCATION
It is a lifelong process whereby every
individual acquires from Ally experiences,
attitudes, values, facts, skills, and
knowledge of motor skill Isis rese in his or
her higher environment.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
04
a. c.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Special Education refers to the education of
persons who are physically, mentally,
emotionally, socially, or culturally different
from so- called "normal" individuals, much
that they require modification of school
practices to develop their potential.
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION IN THE
SOCIETY
• As British sociologist
Herbert Spencer
explains, functions
are important to be
perked as they make
the society whole. If SOCIETY
each function is
working well, society
attains progress. He
lays down the
functions of
 FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION IN THE
01 02 SOCIETY

PRODUCTIVE CITIZENRY
Education systems enable citizens to be productive
members of society, as they are equipped with
knowledge and skills that could attribute to the
development of their society's systems and
institutions. This highlights the importance of formal
and non-formal education in the development of
oneself and the society.
 FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION IN THE
02 02 SOCIETY

SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Education develops one's sense of self. As a huge
part of the discovery process of oneself, education
encourages having the vision to become self-
actualized. Moreover, it enables one to see your
strengths and maintain them. It enables one to
determine weakness and adjust to them. This helps
one reach full potential and establish oneself as a
whole.
According to Abraham Maslow,
self-actualization the highest form
of human need. It was defined as
“to become more and more what
one is, to become everything that
one is capable of becoming The
concept of Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs is once that level is fulfilled
the next level up is what motivates
us, and so on.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs;
1. P h y s i o l og ical need s - th es e a re b i o l o g i c a l req u i remen ts f o r h u ma n
su r v i v a l , e. g ., a i r , fo o d , d ri n k , sh el ter , c l o th i n g , w a rmth , sex , sl eep . I f
th ese n eed s a re n o t sa ti sfi ed th e h u ma n b o d y c a n n o t f u n cti o n
o p ti ma l l y.

2. S afe ty n eed s - p ro tecti o n f ro m el emen ts, secu r i ty , o rd er , l a w ,

sta b i l i ty , f reedo m fro m fea r.

3. Lov e an d b el on g i ng n es s n e e d s - th e n eed f o r i n ter p er so n a l

rel a ti o n s h i p s mo ti va tes beh a v i o r. Ex a mp l es i n c l u d e f r i en d sh i p ,
i n ti ma c y , tr u st , a n d a ccep ta n c e , recei v i n g a n d g i v i n g a ff ec ti o n a n d
l o v e . Affi l i a ti n g, bei n g p a r t o f a g ro u p ( f a mi l y , f r i en d s, w o r k) .

4. Es te e m n eed s - w h i ch M a sl o w c l a ss i fi ed i n to tw o c a teg o r i es: ( 1)

e s te e m for ones el f ( di g n i ty , a c h i ev emen t, ma ster y , a n d
i n d ep en d en ce) a n d (i i ) th e d e s i r e for re p u tati on or r e s p e ct fro m
oth e r s ( eg , sta tu s, p resti ge) , M a sl o w i n d i c a ted th a t th e n eed f o r
resp ec t o r repu ta ti o n i s mo st i mp o r ta n t f o r c h i l d ren a n d a d o l esc en ts
a n d p rec ed es rea l sel f- esteem o r d i g n i ty.

5. S e l f- actual iz ation n eed s - rea l i z i n g p er so n a l p o ten ti a l , sel f-

f u l fi l l men t, seeki n g p erso n a l g ro w th a n d p ea k ex p er i en c es.
However, through education, humans are empowered to
experience and learn their true capacities that lead to self-
actualization. Humans also tend to find boundless enthusiasm
in learning outside the classroom, which is basically through
experience. With this, it becomes easier for them to socialize,
to identify a career path, to create self-identity, and the like.
They will tend to have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and
decide on their own.

To others, education takes place both in and outside schools.

It functions to preserve and transmit the culture. It is, as
Durkheim wrote: "the means by which society perpetually
recreates the conditions of its very existence." Defined in the
most general sense, education can occur anywhere, in any
setting, through any experience. Thus broadly conceived,
education has the same meaning as socialization, the
internalization of culture, and learning human behavior.
Whether it takes place in or outside of the school system,
education is of two kinds, formal and informal. Formal
education is imparted by direct instruction. Informal
Objectives of Education;
1) Teaching basic skills, such as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

2) Helping children develop skills in abstract thinking and problem solving.

3) Transmitting the cultural heritage, from which individual may develop an appreciation of their
society.

4) Communicating to children the basic value of the society.

5) Teaching the special aspects of the culture, such as art, music, literature, drama, science,
technology, and sports.

6) Teaching vocational skills that help individuals enter the job market.

7) Training citizens for life within the political system of their society.

8) Preparing children to live long and form meaningful relationship with other human beings.
Primary Education as a Human Right

Primary education is essential in the early stages of human life.

Humans need education to enable them to adapt to the dictates of their society.
The United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declare
that education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all
other human rights. It promotes individual freedom and empowerment and
yields important development benefits. Yet millions of children and adults remain
deprived of educational opportunities, many as a result of poverty.
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