Social Mobility - The Ideal of a Classless Society

In lash's conception of democracy, class was less important than opportunity and participation. According to lash, education of the populace is crucial to such wide social participation but not type of education designed to offer social mobility in its new modern sense. Those able to benefit from the new programmatic education did not form a classless society. Quite the opposite. Since social mobility, allowing entrance to the elite, actually reinforces the presence and dominance of that elite rather than eroding social distinctions. This has made our society highly stratified and highly mobile. If this trend continues, does democracy deserve to survive?