social barriers

Ideally, we would like to believe that we live in a society in which education provides an opportunity for every individual to develop one’s own talent and capacity. Education has also been seen as a means of equalization among all, because it has been argued that universal education for all would be an ideal environment where children could bypass factors such as race, gender and social class standing. In all actuality, the latter is merely a pipedream. In this paper I will argue that it is in fact education itself, which is a product of past elite education, that becomes a means for the reproduction of society’s inequalities and a method of social control, specifically ones own social class. The consequences are undeniable: education is liable for the reinforcing acceptance of class structure far more than it takes action to change them.
To put the current educational system into perspective, one should look to the past for clarifications and answers. Sociologists h...