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Higher Education as a Means of Social Change
& Development of Scientific Temper
Prof. Musafir Singh
In order that higher education can serve as an effective instrument of social change, it seems necessary that nature, imperatives and dilemmas germane to each component of the theme, are clearly articulated and their dialectical relationship spelled out. As regards social change, by and large, it is viewed as a value-neutral concept in itself. However, it acquires a valueloaded connotation when it is perceived to affect the general well-being of the people either positively or negatively. All social changes, therefore, are not desired or deemed desirable by all sections of society in the same or similar manner. Desirable changes are presumed to lead to social development as defined by the dominant value ethos of the age or its Weltanschauung. Social changes, which cumulatively bring about lopsided development of society, dimensionally or demographically or cause damage to nature's life-support systems, are considered dysfunctional, even dangerous. Those that reinforce social and system's integration, help fulfil the hierarchical need structure of humans or stimulate their evolution towards the omega point are unanimously and ubiquitously welcomed. In order to
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