Question

“Education serves as a vehicle to perpetuate the class system”. Discuss this Marxist assertion in relation to education as a social institution in any African country.

Answer 1

While in many countries, class is developed on the basis of socio economic backgrounds, cultures and race, there are many countries which have a vast gap between the educated and literates when compared to uneducated and illiterate. The education system has been blamed by many thinkers and philosophers like Karl Marx for being the reason which purposes what's the class system. education itself is a factor that defines one of the dimensions of the class system because instead of the policies by government to serve education as a right to people many countries like Africa still are not able to establish adequate infrastructure and resources to supplement education to everyone else. Education can lead to direct discrimination and differences in the opportunities provided to the citizens in terms of future growth and development.

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