The Hidden Curriculum of the Education System

The Hidden Curriculum of the Education System

The education system as a whole has historically been known for predominately serving an economic or political agenda through any number of means stemming from the traditional albeit obvious method of teaching students through academic course work to helping them begin shaping identities due to socialization; but there is a far more intricate curriculum at work 
beneath the surface of academia unbeknownst to most known as the “Hidden Curriculum” which helps not only to shape the individual in the system but the systems of society as a whole. In effect the “Hidden Curriculum” helps to maintain the established class systems found in society by keeping the inequality of power in place and placing the potential for distributing this imbalance of power to a minimal few. 
Conflict theorists such as Karl Marx would agree that this imbalance and separation of power are definitive proofs that the education system is a key component in the continuing separation of classes. How are such classes continuing to remain strong despite the widening margin of public availability to education? Through selective means of division based on race, income and intelligence the education system hampers progress and promotes inequality more than other macro structure found within modern society. The evidence of such divisions is prevalent in daily monotony all around us ranging from requiring college degrees to work minimalist jobs with no relation to said degree to standardized placement testing used to pick potential students in universities. 
The “Hidden Curriculum” helps to contribute to society by shaping young students into proper productive members of society in which those with better advantageous starts are more likely to succeed and those with fewer advantages are more submissive into entering the skilled trade workforce.