How does the Constitution of India promote education? Do you think that education can be a major instrument of social change? Clarify. (Answer in 350 words)

- How does the Constitution of India promote education? Do you think that education can be a major instrument of social change? Clarify. (Answer in 350 words)
Introduction
The Constitution treats education both as a right and as an instrument of equality, which is a larger claim than it can discharge alone.
Body
1. How the Constitution promotes education: It makes elementary education a fundamental right under Article 21A, inserted by the 86th Amendment in 2002 and given effect by the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act of 2009, after the Court had already read education into Article 21 in Unni Krishnan. The directive principles oblige the state to provide early childhood care under Article 45 and to promote the educational interests of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the weaker sections under Article 46. Articles 15(4) and 15(5) permit reservation in educational institutions, including private unaided ones; Articles 29 and 30 protect minority institutions. The 42nd Amendment moved education to the Concurrent List.
2. The case that education drives social change: Phule and Ambedkar both treated it as the lever, and the record largely supports them. Literacy has risen from under a fifth at independence to about three-quarters, and reserved places in schools, colleges and services produced the first Dalit and backward-caste professional middle class. Education detaches occupation from birth, which is precisely what caste required. It also changes the household: schooled women marry later, bear fewer children and educate their daughters, which is why fertility fell first in the states that schooled girls first.
3. The limits on its power to do so: Education reproduces the order it is meant to change. Bourdieu's argument about cultural capital describes Indian schooling exactly: an English-medium private sector for those who can pay and a government school for those who cannot, so the certificate that opens the door is itself distributed by class. ASER's annual surveys have found for years that a large share of children in Class 5 cannot read a Class 2 text. Degrees without employment produce educated unemployment, and caste follows children into the classroom, the hostel and the mid-day meal.
4. Your stand on 'major instrument': Yes, but not a self-acting one. Education changes society when it is joined to land, employment and enforceable rights, and entrenches inequality when it is delivered in tiers. The test of the National Education Policy of 2020 is whether it narrows the distance between the two school systems.
Conclusion
Education is the most reliable route out of an inherited position and the most respectable way of disguising an inherited advantage.