ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates upon the argument that a person’s experience in school lives on long after his or her school days and for some even throughout life. Schools influence habits, manners, speech, thought, dress and many other aspects of adult life. Similarly, friendships, rivalries, romance and enmities nurtured in schools sometimes remain throughout life. Schools provide the happiest lifelong memories for some, while for others, they might cause haunting nightmares. The life and times of authors Roald Dahl and George Orwell with respect to their school days are presented to illustrate the point. These authors had unpleasant experiences in school, and they wrote about them decades later (in Dahl’s case 50 years later). Theories like socialization theory, allocation theory and institutional theory are explained to illustrate the relationship between individuals and their schools. In this context, the chapter analyzes and presents the works of Frank McAndrew, Florin Dolcos, Kevin S. LaBar, Roberto Cabeza, VeredVinitzky-Seroussi, Leon Festinger, Margaret Matlin, David Stang, Lauren Alloy, Lyn Yvonne Abramson, Joan Freeman and others to illustrate the effects that schooling has on individuals. Anecdotes and real-life cases are presented to illustrate the theories and propositions.
