Common schooling aims to produce autonomous, creatively capable citizens.

Evidence

When one comes to study the practical organisation of the common school, one problem of importance is that of the various phases of the educational process, phases which correspond to the age and intellectual-moral development of the pupils and to the aims which the school sets itself. The common school, or school of humanistic formation (taking the term “humanism” in a broad sense rather than simply in the traditional one) or general culture, should aim to insert young men and women into social activity after bringing them to a certain level of maturity, of capacity for intellectual and practical creativity, and of autonomy of orientation and initiative. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes what Gramsci means by ‘school of humanistic formation’ and its goal of autonomy.
• XREF: connects to: The U.S. public school system has always aimed at producing subordinate adults. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 473; Integrated schooling builds the unity of outlook a mobile democratic society requires — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 314; Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337 (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The U.S. public school system has always aimed at producing subordinate adults. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 473; Integrated schooling builds the unity of outlook a mobile democratic society requires — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 314; Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers #corroborates (0.96) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337
• Teacher-rated citizenship traits are inversely related to creativity and mental flexibility. #complicates (0.86) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 510
• The state’s educative aim is shaping new types of humanity fit for production #complicates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 910
• Ordinary schooling trains the workforce that sustains the attention economy #complicates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 307
• Education is shaped by the economic need for children’s productive labor. #complicates (0.76)
• Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata #complicates (0.72)