Meaning of brain farm | Babel Free

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Any mass educational system of improving or providing conditions to increase the intellectual quality and yield of a population of (human) brains, e.g. a university or school.

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“[a. 1928] 1960, “Brains,” in Life and Works of Woodbridge N. Ferris, Roy Newton ed. http://www.ferris.edu/library/SpecCollections/WNF/Brains.html Confidentially, most people have⟳ brains, but they are not using them. They have⟳ left their own⟳ brain farms and gone out into the highways and byways, slaves to the intelligence of those who they call⟳ bosses, the few owners of the earth.”

“1995, Sailor Moon, Episode 5, “Computer School Blues” https://web.archive.org/web/20021118193404/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5976/transcripts/smcc005.txt — I heard some new girl has transferred here, and she's a total brainiac. — Yeah, she's from Brighton Academy. — The brain farm?”

“To the parents and the students involved, the schools have⟳ one function. They are brain farms. The parents plant⟳ their children in the school because it has a reputation for turning out well-regarded college applicants.”

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