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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
Most companies have to train you first anyway. Education rarely accually prepares you for a specific job. I have a two year degree in Accounting and work as an accountant, but I still had to get 2 weeks of training on the job, to learn the company's specific system in place and their programs.
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It's not even so much that. It is that education is all about socialisation. The classroom mirrors the workplace - with the managers and capitalists (teachers) and the workers (children). it is a place of indoctrinating subordination.
This is a basic and imo all too simplistic overview of a famous sociological study on the issue, but it gives a basic insight of their findings.
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Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (1976), Marxist economists, argue the ‘correspondence principle’ explains how the internal organisation of schools corresponds to the internal organisation of the capitalist workforce in its structures, norms and values. For example, the hierarchy system in schools reflects the structure of the labour market, with the head teacher as the managing director, pupils fall lower down in the hierarchy. Wearing uniforms, and discipline is promoted as it would be in the workplace. Education provides knowledge of how to interact in the workplace and gives direct preparation for entry into the labour market.
They also believe work casts a ‘long shadow’ in education – education is used by the bourgeoisie to control the workforce. From their point of view schools reproduce existing inequalities and they reject the notion that there are equal opportunities for all. In this way they argue that education justifies and explains social inequality.
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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
What are some of the companies and industries that want no or little education?
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Well to an extent all of them. They aren't too keen on having philosophical minded people with an understanding of history and the nature of society as it is. They want people with skills that can be exploited, that goes from minimum wage workers to the highest skilled workers.
But the more obvious examples are low paid, low skilled industries. I mean Mcdonalds doesn't want everyone being trained as teachers, doctors, engineers etc. They want you to be able stand up, smile and take orders. Be it Burger King, or a cleaning agency, refuse collectors or a supermarket, that is their requirements.