Far from production as an ideal, it was consumption that had to be
encouraged. School had to train in consumption habits: listening to
others, moving on a bell or horn signal without questioning, becoming
impressionable - more accurately, gullible - in order to do well on
tests. Kids who insisted on producing their own lives had to be
humiliated publicly as a warning to others.
--John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", p. 44
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