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  1. Sep 2018
    1. institutions often forget that individual traits like duty, patriotism, loyalty, are good in moderation but should not be taken to extremes.

      Institutions shouldn't corrupt the students' head because full control of someone gives them a higher chance of rebelling against their high power. Like McMurphy, being trapped will force the person to break out or do anything to not feel like they are in a box.

    2. Discipline, uniformity and regularity, then, teach the young children what one’s socially important identity is, manifested through what one wears, what one eats,

      Conformity makes one lose your identity because no one looks different and them to release self control over oneself to listen to the criteria of the world provides.

    3. primary education induces sociability into the minds of children and drives out any possible deviant behavioural traits, reduces the gulf between the individual and society

      The patients at the Combine are educated and molded into little children, so small that they are all almost the same person following the exact same schedule, taking pills and Nurse Ratched is the teacher.

    4. age group 5-12 much more is taught than the mere basic tools mentioned. A number of moral values are formed during this period, identities are discerned, many preferences are shaped, and basic ideas are created about the world one lives in — how one relates to other people, to other living beings, and to the wider natural environment. These years are formative and the young mind is impressionable

      Students are taught "moral values" to prepare for the real world. It's formed very young that we don't notice we were taught how to be like how we are socializing and interacting.

    5. social control, implies uniformity and conformity. The former aspect is well discussed and analysed in terms of curricula, costs and funding, pedagogy, teaching technologies, and learning aids

      Education conforms the students to learn knowledge in the interpretation they want to be processed. Multiple things are accounted for before it is published.

    1. A whole lot of meaning has been crammed into a few tense days this week. It's turning into a distillation of the hopes and fears of Trump era politics

      It can worry the public because is proves that Trump doesn't have the amount of power he believes. He's breaking down with these people coming out to get him and allegations coming up. Like the Big Nurse, he's scared if he'll get his way or will the Supreme Court regect Kavanaugh? He wants to shift the balance in the Curt and without another conservative, there would be little hope to even get there.

    2. The president can control whether or how he fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He can't control what that means for Robert Mueller's investigation.

      He has power over who is under his belt, but Brett Kavanaugh is not in yet. He has power over the people he selected, but he can't control the investigation against him. The withdraw him in order to cut his power in the FBI down. Security is key to keep Trump at a distance.

    3. Trump can't control how his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is perceived. The White House's best shot at shaping that before Thursday's hearing came on Fox Monday night, with Kavanaugh giving a rare pre-confirmation interview to make an emotional declaration: "I'm not going anywhere."

      It's Brett decision how he reacts to the accusations against him from the two women who say they were assaulted by him. In the novel, he'd be McMurphy because he beats to his own drum and this angers Trump who can be perceived as Big Nurse