Kip Austin Hinton

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