Good article that says a couple of important things. The first focuses on how deeply the idea of 'what school is' has been internalized across cultures. "Whatever else school teaches, the one lesson it delivers to every student without exception--more reliably than reading, more durably than mathematics--is what school is... You acquired the grammar of your native language in childhood without anyone teaching it to you explicitly. It runs below your awareness. You cannot state most of its rules, yet you follow them perfectly." The second addresses the function school serves - not simply as a mechanism for passing on knowledge (though it does that) but also as a place to keep children during the day. "The entire adult economy is built on that fact. Every workplace schedule silently assumes it. This is one of the quiet reasons the grammar cannot change: proposals that touch the school day or calendar collide not with pedagogy but with the labor force."
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