They Say, I Say - Chapter 4 ex.1

In the passage from "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" written by Jean Anyon, she discusses what scholars say about the differences of education within social classes. For example, Bowles and Gintis state "the working classes for docility and obedience, the managerial classes for initiative and personal assertiveness", meaning that the upper class are trained for the higher up, harder jobsm while the middle to lower classes are trained and educated for the less demanding, easier jobs. Anyon agrees with this statement, however she disagrees with it as well. She says that "there has been little or no attempt to investigate these ideas empirically in elementary or secondary schools and classrooms in this country." So Jean Anyon is both agreeing and disagreeing.