Another example of overloading in social settings is provided by Kieran Egan whose pedagogical theory [37] starts from the observation that the three conventional purposes of education—socializing students to prevailing norms, teaching them to seek higher truths and transcend prejudices, and helping them fulfill their own personal potential—are fundamentally incompatible. Egan insinuates, more generally, that the success of any social institution may rest on the degree to which its purposes are aligned. Prisons, for example, are problematic because their purposes—punishment and
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