But the center of the paideia in the classrooms does not complete the relation of paideia to the schools. We also see, all over the country, other aspects of our modern paideia that are connected to formal education. For example, children by the million stand along the side of the road and then climb on to their yellow school busses—or as the educrats might want to call them, “motorized attendance modules of distinctive coloration.” This common experience is also part of our secular paideia, and