BOURDIEU: "THIS REGIME OF TRUTH IS A GREAT BIG LIE"
"Academic success is based on merit and YOUR way to social mobility and success:"
Well, Bourdieu says this regime of truth is one big lie.
1- Education does not guarantee "success"
2- Education is an agent of social reproduction (sounds like Althusser's ISA)
3- Economic capital seems to come with social capital and supercede cultural capital on the path to economic power and successful career

Bourdieu is quite offensive (warlike?) when it comes to depicting the "ruse" (trick):
The educational system contributes to the structure of class relations "by concealing, by an apparently neutral attitude, the fact that it fills this function" ( p. 046)
"Those who are miraculously (yes, it takes a miracle!) elected, may experience an exceptional destiny which is the best testimony of academic democracy" (p 050): This reminds me of Rothenberg's myth of meritocracy argument.
And in the end, even if some of the underprivileged reach full academic success, it does not really matter, since they will never reach the positions and the salaries that those emanating from the always already owners or heirs of economic capital, which usually comes with social capital (manners, language, relationships as in Delpit's) will, with or without the diploma.

So all of us whether dominated or dominant are subjects of this ideology but.....as educators, parents, and always already subjects, we can still practice as spiritually and organically inspired intellectuals in our schools, let's talk about Bourdieu's practice in the trenches of Sociology as a combat sport."
OK, so it's 11:19 and this is what I got (Am i beginning to sound weird?). Anyway, I would like to talk about habitus, and explore more definitions of culture. Also, need translation of the 1st top left paragraph of page 049 (which really starts on p 050), he lost me there. God, he does write so much like a French, with 25 lines sentences & hardly any punctuation!