To what extent can education and skill development be an agent of social change? Critically analyze. (Answer in 150 words)

- To what extent can education and skill development be an agent of social change? Critically analyze. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Education has moved caste and gender further than any other institution, and reproduces both.

Body

1. How they change society: Durkheim made education the transmission of the collective conscience, and it is equally the means of altering it. Schooling puts achievement between birth and occupation. The Right to Education Act, 2009 and the mid-day meal brought girls and first-generation learners into classrooms; Kerala's early schooling produced low fertility and long life at modest income.

2. What limits the effect: Bourdieu and Passeron showed schools rewarding the cultural capital of families that already hold it, and Bowles and Gintis found schooling reproducing the discipline the workplace wants. ASER reports fewer than half of Class V children able to read a Class II text, and skilling without demand for labour yields certificates rather than work.

3. A verdict on the extent: Substantial but conditional. Education changes who may compete without changing the structure they compete in, and its effect is set by the economy outside the school.

Conclusion
Schooling is a necessary instrument of change and never a sufficient one.