Common schooling requires converting education from private to public cost.

Evidence

The common school necessitates the State’s being able to take on the expenditure which at present falls on the family for the maintenance of children at school; in other words, it transforms the budget of the national department from top to bottom, expanding it to an unheard of extent and making it more complex. The entire function of educating and forming the new generations ceases to be private and becomes public; for only thus can it involve them in their entirety, without divisions of group or caste. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 338

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s scaffolding interest in how the modern state’s bureaucratic rationality absorbs private functions to standardize subjects.