Colonial-era Egyptian elites saw schooling, assembly, and press as one disciplinary apparatus

Evidence

The case of Jarwish can remind us that the new discipline of education was to be implemented not only through organised schooling. Schooling was only a part of the wider political process of discipline and instruction. Husayn al-Marsafi, the senior professor at the new government teacher training college, set up in the same period to produce instructors for the village schools, explained that there were three parts to the meaning of education – three institutions in which this new hold upon the individual would be developed: the school, the political assembly, and the press. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 306

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The press as a disciplinary institution parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece’s argument that infrastructure shapes subjects — here media infrastructure is explicitly a form of education.