ABSTRACT
A novel feature of the 1960s is the extent to which education has become a subject for public debate and theoretical speculation. Sociologists tell teachers that they have a role of acting as a socializing agency in the community. The economic and sociological descriptions of education for misleading is that they are made from the point of view of a spectator pointing to the function or effects of education in a social or economic system. The economists rather than sociologists speak of education, lies in the widespread tendency to assimilate it to some sort of instrumental process. The instrumental and moulding models of education provide a caricature feature of desirability by conceiving of what is worth while as an end brought about the process or as a pattern imposed on the child's mind. Plato's image of education as turning the eye of the soul outwards towards the light is much more apposite.
