Education isn’t and shouldn’t be value free. Honest teachers know this. That is why a “hidden curriculum” is not a mystery to anyone with half an interest in education philosophy. Everything from the architecture of a school and the iconography on school grounds to the language of instruction, syllabi choices, rules about etiquette and behaviour on school trips and so on contributes to the institution’s identity and reveals the principles and values given primacy by the facility. Crucially, what is not part of the architecture and omitted from syllabi also reveals a lot about the school’s overall values...