Eppure si sentiva respinto dalle macchine per l'insegnamento. Perché l'intera scuola pubblica era orientata a un compito che era contrario al suo grano: la scuola non era lì per informare o educare, ma modellare e lungo linee gravemente limitate. Era il legame con la loro cultura ereditaria e venduto quella cultura, nella sua interezza, ai giovani. Ha piegato i suoi alunni ad esso; La perpetuazione della cultura era l'obiettivo e qualsiasi stranezza speciale nei bambini che poteva guidarli in un'altra direzione doveva essere risolto.

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(And yet he felt repelled by the teaching machines. For the entire Public School was geared to a task which went contrary to his grain: the school was there not to inform or educate, but to mold, and along severely limited lines. It was the link to their inherited culture, and it peddled that culture, in its entirety, to the young. It bent its pupils to it; perpetuation of the culture was the goal, and any special quirks in the children which might lead them in another direction had to be ironed out.)