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What does it mean?
Education systems that force conformity create isolated individuals.
In plain terms
Schools make kids unlike themselves.
What can you take from it?
Rigid schooling creates alienation.

Where it applies

  • schooling
  • child development
  • family life

Putting it to work

  • education reform
  • homeschooling
  • critical thinking

Questions to consider

  • How do schools shape identity?
  • Is conformity always bad?

Another view

Some structure is necessary for learning.

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