Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating

Evidence

It is the whole cultural tradition, which also and particularly lives outside the school, which in a given ambience produces such results. In any case one can see today, with the changes in the traditional idea of culture, the way in which the school is in crisis and with it the study of Latin and Greek. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the school’s explicit content from the ambient cultural tradition that does the real formative work — a key distinction for the reader’s toolkit on how hegemony operates.
• XREF: Feeds forward into later arguments about how the nation and common sense are formed outside formal schooling — relevant to the imagined community readings. — connects to: Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226; Toddlers are already culturally shaped but lack formal education — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 77