It was not this cultural inheritance that made the schools exceptional,however, but its interpretation, emphasis, reinforcement, validation, and general mobilization at the level of the school. Just as the curriculum did not speak for itself, but needed teachers to articulate it and bring it to life, so too with the framework of objectified culture (Bourdieu, 1997).Though the presence of this relatively standardized culture was of vital importance, it was its management and enhancement in the schools that put it to work in the interests of the pupils (Schein, 1992). It was how it was aligned and adapted to the needs of the pupils that mattered.