The owners of factories need cheap labour, so African-American and Latino school children are taught Sewing, Advanced Sewing, Hairdressing to fill the jobs. Meanwhile, priviledged Euro-Americans enjoy USD22.000 funding per child in public schools to prepare them for fruitful lives.
Jonathan Kozol: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.
None of this is by accident. It is how priviledge hopes to retain its competitive advantage in the age of democracy, globalisation and free markets: by starving potential competitors of the most essential tools - the intelligent use of knowledge. Afrikans will recognise this disparity as 'discrimination'. It is the difference between the education possible in elite (mostly private schools but also government/public schools with privatised access) and the intellectual decapitation that takes place in "normal" schools. Go to a school and you may never do well in life. Go to an elite school and you have a much more probable chance of success in life.
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