Educationism: A Hidden Bias We Often Ignore
This article did make some good points.  But as a first generation college grad who went to a good school, it also rubbed me the wrong way at times.<p>&quot;It wasn’t so much overt stigma, but the hidden injuries of social class that kept emerging – people kept having to explain themselves&quot;<p>You&#x27;re going to meet people from different backgrounds.  You&#x27;re going to have to explain yourself to them.  You&#x27;re going to have to listen to them.  I don&#x27;t know how many times I&#x27;ve had to explain that having your parents buy a $30,000 car isn&#x27;t poor, just because peers got a $60,000 car.  There are people whose parents can&#x27;t buy new cars.  But that&#x27;s the environment they grew up in, of course they can&#x27;t understand.  I had a hard time imagining that an adult would think buying a 16 year old a sports car is a good idea, given their higher accident rates and poor decision making skills.<p>Are we really lowering the standard this much?  You can&#x27;t be expected to have to meet people from different backgrounds?  Which brings me to:<p>&quot;If you have low expectations of the kids they&#x27;ll sink to the level of expectations&quot;<p>Exactly.  Maybe setting the expectations that they never feel uncomfortable, never have their ideas challenged is a bad idea??  In the articles defense, they did mention telling all kids to set their goals high.<p>&quot;Bourdieu pointed to the fact that the education system was invented by the ruling classes&quot;, &quot;Here in Switzerland they abolished grades in one place but there was an uprising mainly due to parents who all of a sudden couldn’t figure out how their kids were doing&quot;<p>Maybe I am reading too much into these quotes, but really?  The article mentions that education is linked to success, but also seems to try to paint the picture that the ruling class invented education to keep the lower classes down?  And those evil parents, caring how their kids did in school?  Can someone tell me if I am misinterpreting these quotes?