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Because everyone in the West (including Britain and even the USSR) copied the Prussian model of education ?

• EdwardDiego 5y ago
  Maybe they did. But if they did, did they copy the Prussian value of education as a form of social control? Citations needed.
• eesmith 5y ago
  Everyone copied from each other and made modifications. The Prussian influence on the US education system is well known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system#Unit... . The thing is, that connection cannot be looked at in isolation. The main modern influence from the Prussian system we retain is in funding compulsory education through taxes. But US educators would also have been influenced by other education forms, like the Lancaster System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System "based on the abler pupils being used as 'helpers' to the teacher, passing on the information they had learned to other students"). When that didn't work out so well, in part because the students didn't handle the factory-like/mechanical form of training, people tried the Glasgow System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stow#The_Glasgow_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stow#The_Glasgow_System ), which emphasized the training of teachers. And guess what - the Prussian model also emphasizes the training of teachers. So when this essay points out how elementary school teachers need to be credentialed under the Prussian system, is that specially a Prussian thing? Or a Glasgow thing that the Prussians copied? Really, read http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model .