Instruction inevitably becomes education because no pupil is purely passive

Evidence

For instruction to be wholly distinct from education, the pupil would have to be pure passivity, a “mechanical receiver” of abstract notions—which is absurd and is anyway “abstractly” denied by the supporters of pure educativity precisely in their opposition to mere mechanistic instruction. The “certain” becomes “true” in the child’s consciousness. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 353

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s key distinction between instruction (the ‘certain’) and education (the ‘true’) — that the former always transforms into the latter in any real consciousness.