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Teach the Children: Education and Knowledge in Recent Children's Fantasy
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 37, 2009
- pp. 216-235
- 10.1353/chl.0.0815
- Article
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This paper examines three series centrally concerned with the education of a young witch, wizard, or otherwise magically-marked child. In all of them, the children do acquire the knowledge and understanding required to fulfill their roles, but they do so in spite, not because, of any formal schooling.