The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
pedagogic work and educational systems summarized: Because pedagogic work (whether performed by the School, a Church or a Party) has the effect of producing individuals durably and systematically modified by a prolonged and systematic transformative action tending to endow them with the same durable, transposable training (habitus), i.e. with common schemes of thought, perception, appreciation and action; because the serial production of identically programmed individuals demands, and historically gives rise to, the production of programming agents themselves, identically programmed and of standardized conserving and transmitting instruments; because the length of time necessary for the advent of a systematic transformation of the transformative action is at least equal to the time required for serial production of transformed reproducers, i.e., agents capable of exerting a transformative action reproductive of the training they themselves have received; because, above all, the educational institution is the only one in full possession, by virtue of its essential function, of the power to select and train, by an action (pedagogic work) exerted throughout the period of apprenticeship, those to whom it entrusts the task of perpetuating it and is therefore in the best position, by definition, to impose the norms of its self-perpetuation, if only by using its power to reinterpret external demands; and finally, because teachers constitute the most finished products of the system of production which it is, inter alia, their task to reproduce - it is understandable that educational systems have a relatively autonomous history and that the tempo of the transformation of academic institutions and culture is particularly slow.