Althusser 1972

• Lenin wrote that philosphy teachers are petty-bourgeois lapdogs of the capitalists, teaching their ideology (33), Althusser apologizes for this, suggesting that teachers are bad only when they are caught up in the system, and some have been able to escape it (68-69)
• the reproduction of labor poewr is done through, in addition to paying wages, the capitalist education system which has two important functions (131-132):
• teaching students the skills they need to literally do a certain job
• inculcating the norms and submission of their class position (132-3)
• "...the reproduction of labour power requires not only a reproduction of its skills, but also, at the same time, a reproduction of its submission to the rules of the established order, i.e. a reproduction of submission to the ruling ideology for the workers..." (132) and also teaching the exploiters how to exploit (133)
• ideological state apparatus: essentially the way the ruling ideology of the capitalist class is transferred to the rest of society...it contains in it the same contradictions that the class struggle has (149-150)
• during feudal times this was mainly the Church, although other organizations also played a part (151)
• educational stat apparatus became the most important one under the capitalist mode of production, replacing the Church (152)
• some may suggest stht forms of democracy and political compeittion are actually more important, but capitalism has existed under lots of different poiltical regimes, education is the one constnt between many of them (153)
• schools are the place where sills/knowledge are drummed into students wrapped in the ideology of the ruling (capitalist) class (155)
• many other organizations can do this drumming, even soccer teams, but none are obligatory like school is (156)
•  this works because the school is assumed to be a neutral realm, not one controlled by ideology (156)
• suggests some teachers can fight the system, but most siply don't even realize they are a cog in this machine (157)