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one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same i<u9:W
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subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their e~Hr(O+;e6
classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are b~W)S/wF$P
experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
