Robert, it goes beyond that. Education is not some sort of higher phenomena that someow “replaces” what is in the human. It is borne out of the human. The knowledge was created or gleaned by the human (or, for those of us who are not secular humanists, it is passed from god through to the human). Nor is it a “veneer”. Education is merely a refined and accelerated program of awakening and refining those aspects, and the passing along of the knowledge acquired through the ages. Or at least one hopes that it comprises these things. One can teach mathematics successfully because the human in front of one has all the innate capacity to understand, and this capacity is spiritual and psychological as well as intellectual. Linguists do not create language, they describe it.

It is not a case of Education somehow taming or replacing “bestial instincts” or redeeming what is low in the human. To hold otherwise is to hold education in a all most magical regard. Education can assist in the civilization of the human, but this does not happen by education alone. Indeed, one as to inculcated with a certain level of civilized behavior in order to be educable at all.

The Left would understand this if they had acquired an actual education along the way. Or civilization.