Education
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Mechanisms of Reproduction > Creation Template, Education, The State, Toxic Socialization
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"Hence I believe I have good reasons for thinking that behind the scenes of its political [[Ideological State Apparatus]], which occupies the front of the stage, what the bourgeoisie has installed as its number-one, i.e. as its dominant ideological State apparatus, is the educational apparatus, which has in fact replaced in its functions the previously dominant ideological State apparatus, the Church. One might even add: the School-Family couple has replaced the Church-Family couple."[1]
"To my knowledge, no class can hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses. I only need one example and proof of this: Lenin’s anguished concern to revolutionize the educational Ideological State Apparatus (among others), simply to make it possible for the Soviet proletariat, who had seized State power, to secure the future of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the transition to socialism."[2]
"Nevertheless, in this concert, one ideological State apparatus certainly has the dominant role, although hardly anyone lends an ear to its music: it is so silent! This is the school. It takes children from every class at infant-school age, and then for years, the years in which
the child is most vulnerable’, squeezed between the family State apparatus nd the educational
State apparatus, it drums into them, whether it uses new or old methods, a certain amount of know-how’ wrapped in the ruling ideology (French, arithmetic, natural history, the sciences, literature) or imply the ruling ideology in its pure state (ethics, civic instruction, philosophy). Somewhere around the age of sixteen, a huge mass of children are ejected ‘into production’: these are the workers or small peasants. Another portion of scholastically adapted youth carries on: and, for better or worse, it goes somewhat further, until it alls by the wayside and fills the posts of small and middle technicians, white-collar workers, small and middle executives, petty bourgeois of all kinds. A last portion reaches the summit, either to fall into intellectual semi-employment, or to provide, as well as the ‘intellectuals of he collective labourer’, the agents of exploitation capitalists, managers), the agents of repression (soldiers, policemen, politicians, administrators, etc.) and the professional ideologists (priests of all sorts, most of whom convinced ‘laymen’)."[3]
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