The Relationship between Culture and Education<br /><br />Mazin Hadi Kzar<br />Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, 51001 Hillah, Babil, Iraq<br />[email protected]<br />The culture of a society has its inevitable impact on its educational system. The educational system points to the various needs of the society concerned, because it is towards the fulfillment of the same that education is organized.<br /><br />If the culture of a society is chiefly materialistic, the education system there is based on competition and the efforts of the individual there, is directed towards the achievement of material goals, and nor towards spiritual or aesthetic ones. If individualism is at the top in a culture the educational system of the society, too, becomes colored by individualism.<br /><br />In conclusion,Whatever we learn through education is immensely influenced by culture. It is said that social traditions influence ways of thinking, remembering, imagining and doing creative things.<br />Keywords: relationship, culture,education