Quote:
"In The Invention of the Adolescent (1967), [Patricia] Watson devised a clever argument based, in part, upon Philippe Ariès' popular history of the family, Centuries of Childhood (1962) and also upon her personal fascination with the chain-link fence surrounding schoolgrounds as both a physical and metaphorical barrier—a barrier that segregated children, adolescents in particular, from their historically 'normal' participation in adult social affairs."
-- Brian J. Low

Source:
Low, Brian J. NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada 1939-89. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002. (p. 117)