Views on education

Social democrats argued that everyone should have an equal chance to succeed in the education system. But as middle class children tend to have higher educational attainment than working classm this suggests that schools don't provide equal opportunity for everyone. As one of the sociologists Halsey concluded after the research that ' relative success and failure in school is determined by the assets or burdens children bring with them, and schooling itself cannot compensate for society the school is a causally less powerful agent than home or community'.

When we talk about liberal education, it means the opposite of specialized education, when students take courses in a wide range of subjects including the major once.As one of the sociologists said liberal education helps find from mass democracy cultured human beings: "Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society. Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness."

New Right view based on a findings solutions of educational problem in the society such as state dependency. There is a need of comptetions between school and allowing schools and colleges self management. "Schools face outside pressures from two main sources: the education bureaucracy and the teacher unions..; the weaker these outside pressures, the more effective was school organisation ­ and consequently the greater was student achievement." (Chubb & Moe)