Culture, Education and Political Leadership in Gramsci’s Thought

Abstract

Gentile’s reform, for Gramsci, had strengthened oligarchic education, through the sharp differentiation between vocational and technical schooling, which did nothing but reinforce social inequalities. Gentile’s reform with its premature choice of pathways (high school or technical-vocational school) tended inevitably towards an undemocratic stratification of social classes. p.56 par.5