The ideology of school was the ideology of childhood. It operated on the assumption that children needed"discipline," that they were special creature… - Shulamith Firestone

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The ideology of school was the ideology of childhood. It operated on the assumption that children needed"discipline," that they were special creatures who had to be handled in a special way (child psych., child ed., etc.) and that to facilitate this they should be corralled in a special place with tie own kind, and with an age group as restricted to their own as possible.

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About Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was involved in the early development of second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: , , and . In September 1970, Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution was published and became an influential feminist text.

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Birth Name: Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein
Alternative Names: Shulie Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone
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