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The evolving universal and social structure call for a revision of the mission of the schools. On the one hand, some societies are reaching their universal and social objectives through educational planning; on the other hand, some are not. This being the case, it has become inevitable to revise the mission of the schools by means of evaluating the prerequisites of the evolving world and the current needs of the society. Taking immediate actions and responding quickly against the evolving universal and social needs will take educational planning activities and practices from being non-conclusive good intentions to effective and efficient actions. Although it a widely-shared view that the fast-developing science and technology not only affects the social infrastructure but the educational systems and the school life as well, there has still not a consensus over what the new arrangements and paradigm changes that this development will involve. Nonetheless, it is clear that the educational institutions and schools must revise its self and shareholders in order to continue to serve their psychological and social functions.For that matter, during the processes where the missions of the schools are redefined, schools at underdeveloped and developing countries must surely go out of their ways to become lifelong learning centers; libraries which serve all day; apprenticeship-parental education-community centers offering every kind of social, cultural and artistic facilities other than merely being educational and social institutions conveying information. This theoretical study focuses on the discussion of whether the mission of schools in underdeveloped and developing countries contributes to meeting the social needs or not.

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