Many sociologists, including Emile Durkheim, have a strong belief that schools play an essential role in enlightening children about their culture's core values (p.375). In addition, in regards to educating children there are various topics and lessons schools educate to children, as well as what evaluation systems and the school structures teach. Sociologists allude to these implicit enlightenment's as the hidden curriculum which is what I will be discussing in further detail. The hidden curriculum is the lessons students are enlightened by because of their presence in school, in contrast to the lectures from the formal topic-particular curriculum (p.376). Many parents as well as politicians have requested that schools should enlighten children
