Education and egalitarianism

This long and interesting post looks at the impact of education on egalitarianism. As I read the post I wondered at the absence of the economic way of thinking, specifically the failure of the blogger to consider the costs of egalitarianism in general and an educational system that shapes society toward this "goal".

Given the previous 3 days of posting here, I wonder if the blogger might be overconfident in his assumptions regarding the role of education in shaping "progress" toward this blogger's desire for egalitarianism or the more useful outcome of economic growth.

The post concludes:

So it isn't really possible to answer the simple question with a simple answer: do modern educational systems in democracies level inequalities or increase inequalities? It would seem that they do some of both; they provide access to disadvantaged people who can then leverage success for themselves and their families, and they also create mechanisms of recruitment into elite organizations that are anything but egalitarian.