Middle class and capitalist school

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological link between the middle classes of capitalist societies and the public school, which presents itself to society as an Unified School. We try to demonstrate that the non-manual workers, longing for their valorization on the economic and social levels, have to support the existence of institutional spaces that apparently assure the same opportunities for all the human beings (in other words: formally democratic institutional spaces). Unified School works, thus, as a middle class ideological weapon, which is used in the struggle for a labour hierarchy that should give primacy to non-manual workers relatively to manual workers.