Education not only transmits a general ruling class ideology which justifies and legitimates the capitalist system; it also reproduces the attitudes and behaviour required by the major groups in the division of labour.
It teaches workers to accept and submit to their exploitation, it teaches the ‘agents of exploitation and repression’, the managers, administrators and politicians, how to practice their crafts and rule the workforce as agents of the ruling class. Althusser argues that via the educational system, ‘Each mass ejected en route is practically provided with the ideology which suits the role it has to fulfil in class society.’