I don’t understand how this is supposed to relate to the OP. The OP claims that education was always about social control and domestication of children (so tha

I don’t understand how this is supposed to relate to the OP. The OP claims that education was always about social control and domestication of children (so that they may become domesticated adults). I guess it’s a bad thing that public education is not working out in America, but that’s just a worse outcome for an already bad model—the classroom was poisoned to begin with. The idea that education as we know it is an unalloyed good—as long as we fund schools enough and appreciate the teachers etc. etc—is just false.