Education distinguishes natural laws from alterable social laws via work

Evidence

It taught a more modern outlook based essentially on an awareness of the simple and fundamental fact that there exist objective, intractable natural laws to which man must adapt himself if he is to master them in his turn—and that there exist social and state laws which are the product of human activity, which are established by men and can be altered by men in the interests of their collective development. These laws of the State and of society create that human order which historically best enables men to dominate the laws of nature, that is to say which most facilitates their work . For work is the specific mode by which man actively participates in natural life in order to transform and socialise it more and more deeply and extensively. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 350

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the modern worldview school imparts as awareness that natural laws are fixed while social and state laws are human fabrications open to alteration.
• XREF: The social-vs-natural laws distinction underlies the constructedness of social arrangements that Islamophobia scholarship later interrogates.