This paper analyzes the educational system as it exists today in many countries across the world as well as some of the fundamental ideas that form the idea of education. It analyzes the effects that the educational system has, and the structure that it is a part of. The fundamental idea in this analysis is the idea of reproduction, through which it tries to get a deeper understanding of different ways that the social inequalities are reproduced in, and by, the educational system. Some of the topics that are analyzed in the paper are: the hidden curriculum, standardized tests, conceptions of skills, attitudes towards students, etc. For further examination the paper analyzes the descriptions of education as they are found on the web pages of Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, and the scholarship program that the Ministry organizes. The paper also questions the ideas of resistance, and analyzes the possibilities of resistance in the educational system, as well as the ideas of reforming the system and the problems that those ideas entail. At the end of the paper a theory of ideology is used for clarification and understanding of the methodology that is used by the educational system to fulfil its function. Analysis results show that the educational system functions in a way that reproduces social inequalities, does not give everyone the opportunity of progress and prosperity, has economic interests and capitalist worldview as its primary motivations due to which people in the system are reduced to commodities. Resistance opportunities are omnipresent, and although the results of resistances are usually weak, they are not negligible. Reforms are, in some aspects, positive, but despite that they usually stay in the confines of the already established structures, due to which they also retain the problems of those structures, although they do somewhat alleviate them.