Marxist View of Education

Marxist view education as having a helpful role for the ruling people in our society and brainwashing people to follow capitalist norms and values.

Role of education: Marxist believe education reinforces the class system by ensuring children of the poor learn the skills for low-paid jobs.

Job opportunities from education: Marxists do not believe education provides equal opportunities for all.

Socialisation from education: Marxists see education as socialising individuals into accepting the values of the most powerful group.

Social control – teaching acceptance of rules and authority:  social control in schools as reflecting social control in the wider society, which benefits the most powerful group.