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Class divide
What they found was in many ways contradictory. For instance, girls who benefited from the scholarship and got more schooling were more independent and less accepting of the traditional sources of authority within the family. But although education seemed in some sense to have “liberated” them in terms of their personal aspirations, it did not seem to have had the broader effects that proponents of the modernisation hypothesis would have expected. In particular, those with more education did not become more favourably inclined towards democracy. In fact, education deepened their sense of identification with their ethnic group and increased their tolerance for political violence. There was little evidence that having more education made them more engaged in civic life or political organisations.
This is not entirely surprising. Education may make people more interested in improving their own lives but they may not necessarily see democracy as the way to do it. Even in established democracies, more education does not always mean either more active political participation or greater faith in democracy. In India, for example, poorer and less educated people vote in larger numbers than their more educated compatriots. Indeed, the latter often express disdain for, and impatience with, the messiness of democracy. Many yearn instead for the kind of government that would execute the corrupt and build highways, railway lines and bridges at the dizzying pace of authoritarian China.

* “Education as Liberation?” by Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Rebecca Thornton. NBER Working Paper 16939, April 2011.

A. 어휘
Class divide 계급(계층)분열. contradictory 矛盾的(모순적)인.
benefit 혜택을 입다. in terms of ...의 점에서. aspirations 열망, 抱負(포부).
proponents 제안자. In particular 특히. favourably 順調(순조)롭게, 호의적으로.
incline 기울다. identification 同一視(동일시), 歸屬意識(귀속의식).
ethnic 인종의. established democracies 기존민주국가.
compatriots 동료, 동배, 同國人(동국인). disdain 경멸.
impatience 참을성이 없음, 조급함, 초조함. messiness 난잡함.
yearn 동경하다, 갈망하다. the corrupt 부패한 사람들. execute 처단하다.
dizzying 현기증 나는.