So, failure of ones is success of
others.
Right. The educational system is a social institution that simultaneously
seeks to make everybody succeed AND which acts as a social sorting
mechanism (not the only one, but certainly one) to make legitimize the
status of those who fail.
Is there a society known to XMCA members, either at present or in the
past, where socialization/enculturation practices do not/did not relate
social stratification, dominance, and all those nasty things associated
with low social status? A good working counter example might clarify the
discussion.
mike