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As many people who didn't enjoy schooling may tell you, formal schooling crushes gentle spirits, destroys creativity and enforces conformity above all. This is often reflected in fictional accounts of schooling. [[Tall Poppy Syndrome]] is often used here.
Related to [[Sucky School]] and [[School Is for Losers]].
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* C.S. Lewis felt that all schools were this way (considering his personal experience, that's hardly unreasonable), and it's reflected in his writing. In "The Chronicles of Narnia," school is only referred to obliquely and used to punctuate how dreary the normal world is. Every school is pretty much portrayed as where childhood goes to die...in the rain.
* Actually exaggerated in the ''Give Yourself [[Goosebumps]]'' book "Zombie School", in which the title school goes out of its way to brainwash its students into total mindless obedience, through everything from subliminal messages to strapping the little suckers to a mindwipe chair and pulling the big red lever. {{spoiler|Incidentally, if you ever read the book, you may want to have some change in your pocket. Just in case.}}
* Hogwarts becomes this twice in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It's not particularly successful in book five under [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|Umbridge's regime]], but that's certainly the Ministry of Magic's intent. Several students get tortured for either claiming Voldemort has returned (which he had) or by pulling pranks on Umbridge. Things go right again by the end of that book, but in book seven Harry, Ron, and Hermione come to Hogwarts to find out that Hogwarts has turned into an
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