Document Type
Article
Department (Manual Entry)
Feinstein School of Education and Human Development
Abstract
Schooling in its contemporary form is but one particular phase of a technology of teaching. Although most social animals can transmit significant knowledge to their young, humans have developed a process of conscious separation of important knowledge from unimportant. While human babes possess significant capacity and powerful instinct to learn, teaching is a way of channeling this ability into carefully selected sets of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Citation
Sidorkin, A. M. (2004). Student labor and evolution of education. World Futures, 60(3), 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604020490431564