The discriminating teaching: high school and technical school

Abstract

In a changing society education must change too. Therefore educational reforms are planned and introduced. But the effects from these, the social results objectively produced by the changes politically adopted, must be controled. And there is no way of controling them effectively without passing through their previous exact knowledge. This is the immediate unrefusable utility of the sociological researches that may precisely produce the objective data indispensable for exercising an efficient control and introducing those corrections found to be necessary in view of experience. In the research the results of which are presented here one started asking: whom are high schools useful to? Whom are technical schools useful to? Two hypotheses were put forth at the beginning: pupils from technical schools are coming from families belonging to low socio-economic categories; pupils from high schools are coming from families belonging to comparatively high socio-economic categories. The research confirmed these two hypotheses and made possible, furthermore, to establish a relationship between several aspects of pupils' school activity and profit and their social origins.