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The author discusses the existence of general principles that affect the cultural and personal transformation of the subjects during the process of upbringing. In order to find a solution to this problem, the author focuses more on the process of transmission of educational contents than on the contents themselves. The transmissions is carried out though language, which, although subjected to stable rules, cannot be considered completely neutral from the ideological point of view, as it tends to emphasize the meanings produced by dominant social groups. During the relation of upbriging, the transmission is carried out also through a pedagogical instrument. This works according to rules that play a relevant role in the determination of the content and the forms of the relation of upbringing. The three main rules of pedagogical grammar are then examined: the distributive rules, the recontex-tualizing rules and the rules of evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]