Education Under Various Phases

Since education is power, persons, specially the ruling class, have ever tried to command it. When it was commanded over by the church, the religious teaching were emphasized so that society could remain integrated. The poor man was taught to labor hard while the priests and landlords lived in luxury. Under monarch the false ideas that the king could do no wrong was supported. Under the industrial Revolution merchants took the command over education from the baron class. After the French and Russian revolutions the right of every citizen to education was recognized and the Government was made responsible to provide education to its citizens.