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3. My own experiences in high school affirm Gatto's argument that schools function to "habituate" students to authority. These experiences of becoming used to following authority started, for me, as early as kindergarten or even pre-school. Everyone who went to pre-school can remember that, like your parents, the teachers were the ones that old you when it was snack time, play time, and nap time. I think that schools do this because children need to learn how to be disciplined from an early age. If I did not become accustomed to authority as a child, then I may have gone down the wrong path later in life as I became a teenager and found my self in trouble with, well, authority. These experiences have helped me grow in to the disciplined, independent, and responsible college student that I am today.