Early vocational specialization can re-crystallize class divisions rather than dissolve them.

Evidence

For it is organised ever more fully in such a way as to restrict recruitment to the technically qualified governing stratum, in a social and political context which makes it increasingly difficult for “personal initiative” to acquire such skills and technical-political preparation. Thus we are really going back to a division into juridically fixed and crystallised estates rather than moving towards the transcendence of class divisions. The multiplication of vocational schools which specialise increasingly from the very beginning of the child’s educational career is one of the most notable manifestations of this tendency. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 367

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bourdieu’s reproduction theory and to the Islamophobia field’s concern with how education systems sort populations by class/race.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the grafting article’s theme of how infrastructure (here educational infrastructure) shapes who can access power.