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This book is about two things. First, it is about the fact that modern schools everywhere take dependent, impulsive, illiterate, and stubborn five-year-old children, and create predictable, compliant, literate, and docile adults. Every modern society routinely and efficiently does this in a process lasting about 12 years. Every modern society does this even though it intrudes upon one of the most emotionally charged relationships known, that between a parent and child.
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© 2012 Tony Waters
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Waters, T. (2012). Bureaucratizing the Child: The Manufacture of Adults in the Modern World. In: Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137269720_2
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