Secular philosophies failed to construct their own education for children

Evidence

Their weakness is demonstrated in the educational field, in that the immanentist philosophies have not even attempted to construct a conception which could take the place of religion in the education of children. Hence the pseudo-historicist sophism whereby non-religious, non-confessional, and in reality atheist, educationalists justify allowing the teaching of religion on the grounds that religion is the philosophy of the infancy of mankind renewed in every non-metaphorical infancy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1188

Categorization

• XREF: The education gap is central to Gramsci’s argument for a school that forms a single national-popular culture — carried forward into debates over how Islamophobia/anti-Muslim sentiment is reproduced through schooling.
• QUESTION: The ‘pseudo-historicist sophism’ — that religion is ‘the philosophy of the infancy of mankind’ — is a germ of an idea; worth tracing where Gramsci develops or rebuts a staged-historical view of religion elsewhere.