To me, these were speech acts, typical
ordinary language practices, performative utterances, that I knew all about from JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words.
Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and
practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and
practices employ
ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant
languages and cultures.