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Come on, the parent post just answered your question again after it was already answered in the article, and you completely ignored it again. > Moreover the ar
by mdorazio 5y ago
Come on, the parent post just answered your question again after it was already answered in the article, and you completely ignored it again.
> Moreover the article traces the history of this movement by Horace Mann, an expert on Prussian education and the acknowledged "Father of public education" in the U.S.
The person who basically founded the US public education system based it on the Prussian system, not the British one.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoDid you read my reply at all? Mann visited Prussia. Apparently he was an expert on Prussian education (No citations given, but let's take it said). Does that imply Prussian education systems? Or Prussian education values? Because, as I literally quoted the author saying, Mann isn't on record saying "Let's control the people, mwahahaha, wait, don't quote me on that", the author is heavily inferring it with no evidence.
- mdorazio 5y agoI genuinely don't understand how you're not making that logical connection here. It seems you're looking for some document where Mann says, "Look at me, I'm specifically basing my views on the Prussian system rather than the Prussian education values". This is absurd.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoWhy? US's upper house is called the Senate, nobody has stabbed in the back by multiple senators once! Plenty of systems are adopted without also adopting the values they evolved alongside. China and free markets. Lots of software companies and Agile. Various "democracies" with the system, but none of the values of "don't commit voting fraud, don't intimate opposition voters" etc. Adopting a system isn't predicated on adopting the values the system was designed in.