Early 20th-century educators explicitly saw schools as training children to accept inequality
Evidence
It is the business of the school to help the child to acquire such an attitude toward the inequalities of life, whether in accomplishment or in reward, that he may adjust himself to its conditions with the least possible friction. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 938
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the standing reading interest in how institutions manufacture consent and docility toward power. — connects to: Horace Mann saw schooling as the sole counter to capitalist class domination — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 333; Early American education reformers aimed to pacify the poor rather than end poverty — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 371; US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 363 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality
#corroborates(0.92) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 363 - Early education reformers aimed to defuse class conflict without redistributing wealth
#corroborates(0.85) - Differentiated schooling reproduces rather than abolishes class divisions
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