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'Education is a tool of the ruling class'- Discuss In this essay I am going to be exploring the various ideas surrounding the above statement in particular ideas of the theories of social class in relation to education. I will be looking at both sides of this statement using both the Marxist perspective and the Functionalist one. When looking at each of these theories I will be relating them to the 3 universally agreed broad functions that education is stated to hold in society: socialising young people into cultural values, teaching the skills required by a developing economy and allocating people to the most appropriate job. Each of the theories differs on their opinions of these roles and therefore hold opposing views in the statement that 'education is a tool of the ruling class. I am going to initially look at Marxism as this theory looks at the concept of class...

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