THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT

The aim of this study is to explain the role of education on social development and progress, individual development and progress and to explain the dynamic relationships among these concepts. Education is not only an institution but also a procedure taken place in society. If these concepts are ordered in terms of their functions, the society is aim, and the education is an avoidable tool to make this aim come true. Development and improvement are based on socio economic decisions of the politicians to improve the welfare of individuals. At the present day, development and improvement, not only on people's material needs, the development of their social conditions, is related to the realization of their hopes. In developed countries, the knowledge generated through research and education, used not only to realization social and economic objectives, as well as the use of the realization the individual's personal development is observed. To understand the relationship between education and society in a healthy way and to explain the highly dynamic structure of education is not a routine process that affects every level of society as an social institution, political authority needs to be imposed that to build a prosperous society that education and knowledge are provision.