Diminishing Inequality Gap

Education is an illusion to diminishing inequality gap, the same way people often have the misconceptions of criminals getting sent to prison reduces crime. Education is known for being the key to success but no one really question some of the ramifications in which educational institutions have on society. In fact, many believe that by receiving a higher education, it will help them achieve their American Dream or give them the opportunity to live comfortably with assumption that, the higher the degree equals suitable paying job. Such institutionalized thinking are costly because millions of people are in debt, as they continue to further their education. However, others who do not have the same capabilities or resources to achieve higher education due to their social class circumstances, are subject being outcast. As a result, education is failing students as well as society …show more content…
Sometimes, depending on individuals’ upbringing, they can beat the odds of their surroundings or repeat the same pattern without being aware of it. For instance, if going to college is a norm in ones’ community, family or social class, they are more likely to attend college. Nonetheless, that is not always the same for individuals that were born in poverty or had less resources to pursue the same pathway. Society has made going to school acceptable to help people rise in their social class by getting educational advancements and condemn the ones who do not. The higher the education, people are motivated and enabled to move up in social class, which can help them to escape poverty but in reality, escape their culture, beliefs and identity. For that reason, one can conclude that primary purpose for the existent of educational institutions is to reproduce inequality socially. Scholars have argued that “inequality is continually socially reproduced because the whole education system is overlain with a dominant group’s