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> It’s factory education, and if you’re not a widget of the right shape it cuts you up. That's a fitting description that matches a factoid I read about manda
by johnchristopher 4y ago
> It’s factory education, and if you’re not a widget of the right shape it cuts you up.
That's a fitting description that matches a factoid I read about mandatory education early days: the goal was to have workers who could read and count to operate industrial machinery.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoIt’s even worse than that. John Taylor Gatto has written extensively on the problems with government schools.
- rumpelstinkin 4y agoit was also meant, like the army and later tv, to create a uniform national culture and erode local communities in favor of the newborn unnatural countries.