TDUCATION IS A SOCIAL INSTRUMENT 1 of great importance. As a matter of fact, education is never an autonomous process, separate and apart from the society it serves. It always develops within a particular social context; it is anchored in the civilization of which it is a part; in a very real sense, it is the child of historic circumstance. Education always finds its central purpose, its guiding principles, in the particular social order in which it develops and functions. The dignity and worth accorded the individual, the arrangement of social classes and the terms on which human association is carried on, the locus of political power and the spirit and form of government, the nature of the economy and the degree of equality of opportunity it affords, aesthetic standards, value premises and moral commitments-all these are woven