杰克意识到，这是一场战斗，在学校的综合心理与孩子们的个体心理之间，前者持有所有关键卡。假定没有适当反应的孩子被认为是自闭症的，那就是根据主观因素优先于他的客观现实感。那个孩子因被驱逐出学校而受伤；之后，他完全去了另一所学校，旨在使他康复：他去了本·古里翁（Ben-Gurion）营。他不能被教导，只能处理他的病。
(It was a battle, Jack realized, between the composite psyche of the school and the individual psyches of the children, and the former held all the key cards. A child who did not properly respond was assumed to be autistic-that is, oriented according to a subjective factor that took precedence over his sense of objective reality. And that child wound up by being expelled from the school; he went, after that, to another sort of school entirely, one designed to rehabilitate him: he went to Camp Ben-Gurion. He could not be taught, he could only be dealt with as ill.)