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Paul Willis also argued about the correspondence between school and work but this was not produced by school, pupils – lads, themselves produced this correspondence by rejection of the school. They rejected the school and created their own counter school culture. This rejection prepared them for the low-skilled and low-paid obedient job. 

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis said that there is a close correspondence between school and work. This correspondence is necessary for social reproduction – reproduction of new generation of workers who will obey and accept their roles in the society. As many workers work in a job they don’t like, they are motivated only with external benefit – salaries. The same is with young pupils. They don’t get satisfaction with their studies and they are also motivated only with external reward such as educational qualifications and grades. Schools help to spread inequality into the society by broadcasting that schools give everybody an equal chance. And those students who work hard will get the highest job because they do their best and do what they have been told. So they become well behaved obedient subject class. 

Glenn Rikowcki argued that Marxists view now is still relevant: "Marxists as it illustrates and illuminates the ways in which employers view, assess and differentiate between potential labour powers. Labour power only becomes an actuality when exercised and materialised within the labour process. In recruitment, employers are forced into considering (to varying degrees and using more or less sophisticated recruitment methods) the extent to which individual labour power as presented in and through the person will attain concrete form through actual labour, both in a quantitative and qualitative sense.”

Education now is increasingly privatized as more and more aspects of educational system is now not free and controlled by privatized industry. He said that in future education will be primarily for the benefit of shareholders and its main function will be to produce profit.