Education’s failure to deliver mobility mirrors the frontier’s broken promise.

Evidence

Like the nineteenth-century prairie settler, the late twentieth-century student has come to realize the fancy of flight. The school system has been increasingly unable to support the myth of equal opportunity and full personal development. And the fading of the American Dream, hardly confined to education, has been a persistent theme of recent years. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 182

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Western education failed to transform postcolonial Africa — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 953; Higher education now indebts students for jobs they could have gotten without it. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 56; Colonial education aimed to limit indigenous aspirations rather than expand them — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 720 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Higher education now indebts students for jobs they could have gotten without it. #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 56
• Colonial education aimed to limit indigenous aspirations rather than expand them #corroborates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 720
• Western education failed to transform postcolonial Africa #corroborates (0.78) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 953
• Education lost its value when firepower replaced credentials as the path to power #complicates (0.72)