Education: Equal Opportunity?

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as of the wealthy class. This conclusion was based on statistical evidence. The process of stabilizing an unequal society is much more difficult to achieve. Increasing opportunity is much more easier to attain, therefore opportunity has been practiced more.
Bowles and Gintis article explains how schooling has supported the capitalist economic system. The authors came to this conclusion because education itself was created to help, and develop the capalist order in society. Education was used provided to
train people with knowledge of information in a fast growing capitalist society. Making the people knowledgeable enough, to apply skills learned from school into the capitalist order. The second reason why education was mandated was because many different races and social background would provide fittings of the varied economic opportunity in society. Creating equal opportunity in education would then give many varied cultures an opportunity to choose roles in life. ...

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