Schooling legitimately transmits the attentional modes that let people shape their world.

Evidence

At their best, then, schools help ensure that the young develop the kinds of attentional modes and capacities that give shape to the world, thereby equipping them to move through it, transform it, and do the ongoing work of making a home there, for themselves and others. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 290

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schooling is the most massively inculcated of all cultural discourses after media — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1103; Common schooling aims to produce autonomous, creatively capable citizens. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337; Schools are wherever focused attention is collectively learned and practiced — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 306 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Schooling is the most massively inculcated of all cultural discourses after media — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1103; Common schooling aims to produce autonomous, creatively capable citizens. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337; Schools are wherever focused attention is collectively learned and practiced — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 306 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary schooling trains the workforce that sustains the attention economy #complicates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 307