ABSTRACT
Durkheim defined education as ‘the action exercised by the older generations upon those who are not yet ready for social life. Its object is to awaken and develop in the child those physical, intellectual and moral states which are required of him both by his society as a whole and by the milieu for which he is specially destined’.1 This action, the socialization of new generations, necessarily takes place in all societies, but it assumes many different forms in respect of the social groups and institutions involved, and in respect of its own diversity and complexity.
