Social integration
To mold students into a more or less cohesive unite: forging a national identity and stabilize the political system, schoolings helps socialize students into the mainstream culture.
Gatekeeping
To determine which people will enter what occupations through the process of:
tracking: the sorting of students into different of educational programs on the basis of real or perceieved abilities
social placement: a function of education that funnels people into a society’s various positions by ability testing and required traits.