education
education -- the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values. This is the sociologist definition of education. ... To argue whether or not our education system is tackling the criteria depends on the expectations of the one doing the arguing. Our current education system does provide its members with important knowledge. ... The debate over this important knowledge is more over the quality of education children in different neighborhoods receive. ... This makes our system biased and it clearly does not give all students equal education. ... This form of education keeps students at the poor schools part of the working class and students of the rich schools prominent members of society.