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  • Essay / Social class vs. Education - 1146

    This shaping of a state of mind through teaching is found in the articles of all three authors, but is better developed in that of Anyon. She explains how different levels of education help develop different "cognitive and behavioral skills" ingrained through repetitive teaching (Anyon 413) and that this development changes the way students grow toward the interaction between the physical capitol, the capitol symbolism and authority in the work environment (Anyone). Kozol supports this claim by observing a lower grade class, in which the teacher taught his subject by forcing the students to conform to a set of instructions given to them. In this case, the cognitive and behavioral skills acquired by students by following