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School serves 7 essential functions as an agency of education: (1) Conserving and promoting a society's culture and traditions while spreading them to new generations, (2) Providing an all-round development of individuals by drawing out their hidden potential through various programs and activities, (3) Helping develop higher values like truth, sympathy, and cooperation in children through social interactions and moral teachings, (4) Developing social responsibility by allowing children to learn lessons about duties, understanding others, and facilitating social change through a miniature society, (5) Providing citizenship training so children learn their duties and rights as responsible citizens, (6) Preparing children to properly adjust to society's problems by checking and guiding their application of knowledge

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School serves 7 essential functions as an agency of education: (1) Conserving and promoting a society's culture and traditions while spreading them to new generations, (2) Providing an all-round development of individuals by drawing out their hidden potential through various programs and activities, (3) Helping develop higher values like truth, sympathy, and cooperation in children through social interactions and moral teachings, (4) Developing social responsibility by allowing children to learn lessons about duties, understanding others, and facilitating social change through a miniature society, (5) Providing citizenship training so children learn their duties and rights as responsible citizens, (6) Preparing children to properly adjust to society's problems by checking and guiding their application of knowledge

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School in the modern time is treated as the most suitable, active and formal agency of education. As per
the changing need of the hour, school develops and grows with its specific goals. It is emerged out of the
demand for education and pressure on the parents regarding their educational pursuit.

The word ‘School’ has been derived from the Greek word ‘Skhole’ that means leisure. It was before in
the ancient Greece to utilize leisure time in a systematic way. But now this concept has changed to
prime time activity. It is an essential investment field now on which the entire superstructure of life of
the individual and nation will build.

Main Function of School:

(1) Conservation and promotion culture:

The school conserves the valuable culture, tradition, values of the society and helps in promoting and
developing these with the rolling of the time. It also spreads the store of culture to the next generation.

(2) All-round development of the individual:

For all-round development of the individual school has a package of programmes. Through its different
activities, it draws out the hidden potentialities of the child and develops them in a proper way.

(3) Development of higher values of life:

School helps in developing and cultivating good and higher values like truth, sympathy, love,
cooperation, etc. in child. Through different social interactions and moral teachings, it spreads the
message of righteous living in a society.

(4) Development of social responsibility:


School is called a society in miniature. Because in schoolchild shares his feelings with various children
coming from different strata. So he learns the lessons of social duty, responsibilities and understanding
the feelings of others. So school helps in social change and social control.

(5) Citizenship training:

School creates the first civic society for the child. So child learns the duty and civic rights for the country
as a responsible citizen. So school trains the lessons of citizenship to a child.

(6) Adjustability in society:

School prepares child to face the problems of the society. So proper adjustment and application of
learned knowledge can be checked and guided by school. So the main function of the school is to
develop adjustment capacity of an individual.

(7) Vocational training:

Through different activities, school provides training in different vocations. It also cultivates the values of
dignity of work and labor. It prepares children to face any challenge in the future to solve their bare
necessities.

The role of school cannot be confined with these lines. In modern days, the role of school has been
increasing day by day. It is called the hub of learning. Every developed state gives first priority to the
schools for total national development. Really, school is now a prestigious institution in the society,
which can be called a man-making factory.

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