ABSTRACT
Education is being characterized here as the process wherein the individual recapitulates the accumulation or development of the sense-making capacities invented and discovered in our cultural history. “Sense-making capacities” are a product of knowledge accumulation and psychological development working together along with a generative element, which may be a product of their joint working or may involve something independent. Cultural history can enlighten our study of education because we can see in it the effects of these forces in shaping the sequence in which sense-making capacities have been and can be generated.
