Why do Marxists view the education system as an apparatus of the ruling class? (6 marks)

Marxists ideology is that the dominant ideology of capitalist society serves to further the status and wealth of the ruling classes. Education is an institution which is an example of this becuase:Reproduces class inequality e.g. rich get richer (1 mark)> Reas: middle class students have more cultral capital + favoured by teachers so they get better grades = better jobs (1 mark)> Paul Willis 1977 study on working class school boys achievement (1 mark)Legitimates class hierarchy (1 mark)>School teaches us meritocracy, that some people just arent ‘smart’ enough (1 mark)> Althusser: it creates false consciousness which prevents alternative ways of thinking about the world/free thought (1 mark)Trains the proletariat to be good workers (1 mark)> Boules and Gintis 1976: the hidden curriculum. Education only teaches us ways to fit into a capitalist work system, e.g. focus on IT skills rather than cooking classes. (1 mark)> Althusser: makes us passive in the belief that working for a wage is the only system so we become alienated from our labour and bow to passive subservience of our masters. (1 mark)this means we learn that being disinterested in our work is normal and we accept working for external rewards e.g. wages/grades rather than personal fufilment. (1 mark)