"Examine the role of education in society and who benefits from it"

"Examine the role of education in society and who benefits from it"
As we all know,education has been more and more important in our life and to the whole society. It always stands for the high status,high income and high popularity.In fact,what role does the education play in the society and why we always see educated people as people with good personalities and responsibilities?
Let's discuss it from six perspectives!
Firstly,we can know Functionalist's idea of the role of education by analysing the French sociologist Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parson. According to Emile Durkheim's arguements,education can improve the social solidarity by teach people shared history og themelves to evoke and develope the similarities of common people and then,bind them together to stable the big society.In addition,in the industrial society,people have to learn specialised skills and knowledge to get jobs that can be done by educational system. But from Talcott Parson's opinion,he sees the education as a main agency of secondary socialisation that linked between the family and society. It helps students to know their abilities and allocate their roles.
Nextly,from Marxists' opinons,Louis Althusser thought the educational system has largely replaced for ideological control and the main role of education is transmitting the ideology. And the reduction in social inequality is posed in terms of what Bowles and Gintis said that education legitimates social inequality by broadcasting the myth that it offers everyone an equal chance.
AS for the Feminist perspectives,maintaining gender inequality is one of the main roles of education.
In the 1960s,social democratic perspectives on education grew up and have big influence on government educational policy.Education is seen as to bring benefits to society by producing economic growth.
From New Right's point of view,education can lead to a success in an increasingly competitive global market-place that motivates people to improve standards .
At last,in my opinon of the role of education,it teaches us lots kind of knowledge and specialised skills which helps us to get good jobs and earn money.Therefore,the first person that get benefits is the one who gets education. Then,people around this person can also get benefits that they can get financial support,feel proud or will have better living condition. Besides,as i refered in the third and sixth paragragh,the social solidarity and economy will be increased which is beneficial to the whole society and,that's why the government always calls for more people to get to education and even subsidises the people that can't afford the fees.