Colonial schooling produced subjects defined as industrious producers

Evidence

Schooling was again the practice in which this working upon the mind was most readily envisioned and put into practice. The discipline and coordination of schooling was to produce not only the implicit obedience of the body, but also a well-formed character. The most important trait of this character, as we saw in chapter 4, was its industriousness. The individual was to be produced, and was to be produced as, essentially, a producer. Character was something to be examined, to improve it and also to know how to rule it and control it. Such examination, as men like Lord Cromer made clear, was to be an essential part of the process of political control. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 544

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘individual as producer’ echoes Weber’s Protestant work ethic and aligns with the sacrifice book’s theme of how states form subjects through ritual disciplines.