Study is a physically and mentally tiring apprenticeship

Evidence

The child who sweats at Barbara , Baralipton 36 is certainly performing a tiring task, and it is important that he does only what is absolutely necessary and no more. But it is also true that it will always be an effort to learn physical self-discipline and self-control; the pupil has, in effect, to undergo a psycho-physical training. Many people have to be persuaded that studying too is a job, and a very tiring one, with its own particular apprenticeship—involving muscles and nerves as well as intellect. It is a process of adaptation, a habit acquired with effort, tedium and even suffering. Wider participation in secondary education brings with it a tendency to ease off the discipline of studies, and to ask for “relaxations”. Many even think that the difficulties of learning are artificial, since they are accustomed to think only of manual work as sweat and toil. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 369

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci redefines study as labor requiring bodily discipline and adaptation, not a purely cognitive act.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School theme of how bourgeois society demands self-control and deferred gratification as body discipline. — connects to: Studying as drudgery rather than adventure diminishes actual capacity
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 369