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They know what schools do to them.

Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with _______ learning , grade advancement with _______ education , a diploma with _______ competence , and fluency with the _______ ability to say something new . His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for _______ health care , social work for the _______ improvement of community life, police protection for _______ safety , military poise for _______ national security , the rat race for _______ productive work . Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends...