Weber's (1968, pp. 1143-45) observation that charismatic education is steeped in asceticism, isolation, physical and psychic exercises, and continuous testing has obvious parallels in many contemporary trusteeship "prep schools."

XREF: Connects Weber's sociology of charismatic authority to contemporary educational institutions, drawing a parallel between historical religious training regimes and modern elite prep schools.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 90