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The similarities between mass-production industries and most existing school environments are striking: five-day week, seven-hour day, one hour for lunch, careful division of labor for both teachers and students, a high premium on conformity and a corresponding suspicion of originality (or any deviant behavior), and, most significantly, the administration’s concern for product rather than process.

Quote ID: 00453

Author

Neil Postman

Source

Teaching As A Subversive Act

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