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How does education determine people’s life chances
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How does education determine people's life chances? The question appears to be seeking an investigation into the relationship between the education a person receives and the opportunities which it provides. Key words seem to be education, determine and life chances. Determine strikes me as a very definite word, defined in the Collins Dictionary as meaning, 'to settle conclusively, to make a firm decision'. Use of the verb determine rather than for example, affect, influence or shape, presumes an unquestionable link between education and life chances. For the purposes of this essay I am going to look at education in the sense of learning opportunities provided by the state and concentrate on issues of social class, race and gender. Life chances is a very vague phrase which could be construed as having a variety of different meanings, but in this case I would interpret it to mean opportunities of economic and social...
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