ABSTRACT
We tend to take schools for granted as a natural and unquestioned part of the human experience. They are, however, a relatively new phenomenon especially in terms of a common universal application. As institutions, schools have certain unique features in common, however much they vary from each other in terms of buildings and ethos. They are compulsory. They hold together two distinct bodies of people for a fixed amount of time before releasing one of those bodies of people into the outside world. One group of people is there to enforce certain experiences on the other, however reluctant that other group might be. There are rules that must be obeyed by groups of people organized into spaces created especially for this purpose.
