Colonial school inspection was designed to surveil mind and body alike

Evidence

Schooling was a process that treated the person in this dual manner. Its powers of monitoring and instructing were designed to keep the mental as well as the material under observation. The paragraph of a government report of 1880 discussing ‘the nature of inspection’ explained that the task of school inspectors, as ‘the eyes of the Minister of Education’, was to examine the condition of each school ‘both materially and morally’. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 333

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the body/mind duality was operationalized in actual colonial administration.