Politics in Education

Just home-schooling today lacks legitimacy, the same problem was present in Marx's time. Referring to the idea of homeschooling, Marx writes,"the bourgeoisie clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more distinguishing , the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor" (173). Adding legitimacy to Marx's claim, not only does he denounce the current education system, but he goes as far to explain a better method of education that is currently being employed by the communists. He writes, "the communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the absence of the ruling class." Marx is a firm defendant of social education over home education.