es the need to intellectually challenge the student and question student assumptions in a way that 'shapes' those assumptions towards a single, desired answer. "Impersonal regulation" from above "becomes a substitute for personal decision making, ensuring that the troops will stand firm in a crisis" (Cookson & Persell 25). According to this metaphor, the elite are an army in a cultural war, and prep schools are basic training.
             At prep schools, like the military, there is also
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