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The whole system of education was thus collective: children were simply torn from their families and made to live in a community. […] [A]t the age of twelve the ‘adolescent’—πάμπαις—had to be made tougher, and was obliged to leave home and go to a boarding school—i.e., the barracks’.
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Santos, F.D. (2017). Gender Wars—On Schools in Literature. In: Education and the Boarding School Novel. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-741-2_4
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