Forgive me if I’m just overthinking or thinking about nothing, I’m just wondering how educated should a worker be to be class conscious?
How I came to thinking was just pondering on people who are gullible to other people’s opinions, and the ethics of ethical education? Maybe just nonsense meta stuff, but what exactly can people do, and how can we teach people to be self-aware enough to listen to what they truly believe in. Especially when it comes to adolescents who are surrounded by information dumping news sources and ideas from all sides, and any one source just has to be charismatic/bold enough for it to stick in someone’s head for long term
It depends on the goals of education. If you look a bit into Gramsci’s prison notebooks you will find that (formal) education is just an extension of capitalist power. Educated people only serve to reproduce the current power structures and to further the cultural hegemony of the ruling class. You can see that at play at all (most?) higher ed institutions where very little is done to lift off others versus personal advancement towards publications, grant funding, prizes.
Gramsci also has some ideas on how the education system can be rethought to benefit the masses. I’ll let you discover those ideas on your own :)
I think that it serves the intrest of the wealthy in a capitalist society but the formal education system doesn’t have to. The USSR is an example of this. Of course a capitalist government is not going to spend money on uplifting people but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done in a socialist society.