Bowles and Gintis' correspondence principle claims that norms and values learned in school correspond to those that prepare workers to be exploited.

• A. Education rewards creativity and independent thinking.
• B. Norms and values learned in school correspond to those that prepare workers to be exploited.
• C. Subjects are fully integrated and not fragmented.
• D. Education is completely meritocratic.

Answer: (B)

The idea being tested is the correspondence principle: schooling mirrors and prepares students for the workplace by teaching norms that fit capitalist exploitation. In schools, pupils learn to follow authority, accept rigid routines, be punctual, and comply with rules and graded rewards or punishments. These attitudes line up with what many employers expect in work settings, helping to reproduce a ready-to-exploit labor force. So the statement that norms and values learned in school correspond to those that prepare workers to be exploited best captures this idea. The other options misrepresent Bowles and Gintis: they emphasize conformity and the hidden curriculum over creativity or independence, and they challenge the notion that education is fully integrated or meritocratic.