In fragile and conflict-affected states, education can insulate children from chaos and insecurity, and better prepare them to bring about future stability.
In fact, schools' protectiveness can sometimes insulate children from the real world and so make the move to the next stage of their lives more difficult, the researchers point out.
Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said, "Some people had drawn a Pollyanna-ish conclusion that somehow changes in the welfare system would insulate children from increases in poverty during economic slumps".
"When adults fight with each other, they tend to forget how to insulate the child from it and maintain a relationship with the child while fighting," said Albert J. Solnit, the former director of the Yale Child Study Center.
He converted the lower floor, where the flower shop once stood, into a children's ministry, and installed soundproofing to insulate the children's ruckus downstairs from the electric guitars and drums of the church's worship band upstairs.
He told the programme that "you can't insulate your children from what you do" and said his children got teased "a little bit" because he was prime minister.
What's wrong with wanting to insulate your children from difficult experiences?
People want to insulate their children from the shame of being different, so they simply pretend that they are not.
This is the reality, however hard parents try and insulate their children from the effects of debt.
Couple that with a desire to insulate their children from economic constraints, he added, and "the first place to spend goes to the kids".
