Children spend most of their time in institutions such as schools, learning, in order to provide themselves with the education they need to realize their dreams. Children see these institutions as a space of sociability where they can form bonds with others, outside of their families, while creating and spreading their own distinctive culture (McDonnell 26). As a reading buddy at Brooksview Middle School, the knowledge I gained while there was fascinating as it allowed me to reflect on my experiences and relate them to what we were learning throughout the course. Observing firsthand and taking notes allows a researcher to examine child culture practices more efficiently, and that's what I did for much of my Monday afternoon. While these institutions are there to help children succeed, they also deny them access to their own culture which may prevent them from becoming “fully human” (Friere 28). Viewing childhood as a culture allows us to understand why children view culture so differently as adults (McDonnell 22). At institutions like Brooksview, children are denied access to a variety of things and are assumed to be incapable of making their own rational decisions. Due to the location of the institution, the teachers and principal are extremely strict with the children on how they should behave, giving them standards that may deny the children access to their own culture. This influences these children to act in certain ways, ways they believe society wants them to act. This was demonstrated one day when I attended an assembly regarding the failure rate of sixth form students. Throughout the assembly, the principle was to educate children on how they should behave at school, which led him to conclude that the cause of the failure rate (60%) was due to “coloured” children (Appendix , Day 6). This is similar to the experiment that is tested on Octavian in the novel Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation. Because of Brooksview's location and Octavian's skin color, people will assume that blacks will fail, especially in practices such as education. “…The African is, by nature, (a) incompetent and (b) wayward, requiring constant supervision to remain productive… You have done us a wonderful service, through your failure.” (Anderson 337). This could affect the child's approach within society as it could alter their perspective on how they should act rather than how they want to act; change for the good of others.