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Education is specifically a human activity. Our minds are like handles to which alternative systems of culture can be fitted. So far, in most human societies,
education, in the broad sense of teh transmission of a cultural heritage, has been an unself-conscious activity. People have mostly acquired their ancestral
culture in the way they learn their mother tongue. This unsophisticated kind of education continues to play an important part even in societies in process
of civilisation in which organised and formal systems of education have come to be estimated. Even in educational institutions in which the official staple
is book-learning the forming of habits and training of character are still largely left to be taken care of by the spontaneous effects of social relations.
What the child brings with him from his home may count for as much as what is deliberately impressed upon at school. The importance of the home's contribution
comes to light when an educational institution that has been the preserve of some privileged minority is thrown open to a wider public. It takes more
than one generation for a family that has made its way out of a less privileged into a more privileged social class to acquire the full cultural heritage
of the class to which it has won admission. A society enters on the process of civilisation as soon as it can afford to maintain a minority, however small,
whose time and energy is not wholly taken up in producing food and other primary necessities of life. This leisured minority is the social mileau in which
education, in the broad sense of teh transmission of a cultural heritage, has been an unself-conscious activity. People have mostly acquired their ancestral
culture in the way they learn their mother tongue. This unsophisticated kind of education continues to play an important part even in societies in process
of civilisation in which organised and formal systems of education have come to be estimated. Even in educational institutions in which the official staple
is book-learning the forming of habits and training of character are still largely left to be taken care of by the spontaneous effects of social relations.
What the child brings with him from his home may count for as much as what is deliberately impressed upon at school. The importance of the home's contribution
comes to light when an educational institution that has been the preserve of some privileged minority is thrown open to a wider public. It takes more
than one generation for a family that has made its way out of a less privileged into a more privileged social class to acquire the full cultural heritage
of the class to which it has won admission. A society enters on the process of civilisation as soon as it can afford to maintain a minority, however small,
whose time and energy is not wholly taken up in producing food and other primary necessities of life. This leisured minority is the social mileau in which
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