The book
Holds text and pictures on pages bound along one edge, so a reader can carry it, open it anywhere, and return to any passage without power or permission.
Compulsory schooling and what it runs on: the literacies it certifies, the books it assigns, and the texts it treats as valuable.
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Holds text and pictures on pages bound along one edge, so a reader can carry it, open it anywhere, and return to any passage without power or permission.
Teaches a whole population to read and write one standard language, fixed by rule, certified by schools, and required by offices.
Brings children together in graded classes under certified teachers, for a set number of years, to prepare them for work and (occasionally, still) citizenship.