Education can nurture workers unwilling to accept workplace domination

Evidence

We must press for an educational environment in which youth can develop the capacity and commitment collectively to control their lives and regulate their social interactions with a sense of equality, reciprocity, and communality. Not that such an environment will of itself alter the quality of social life. Rather, that it will nurture a new generation of workers— white and blue collar, male and female, black, white, brown, and red— unwilling to submit to the fragmented relationships of dominance and subordinacy prevailing in economic life. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 249

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Education simultaneously raises worker productivity and defuses class conflict to preserve profits — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 226; Schooling can breed workers unwilling to accept workplace subordination; Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Schooling can breed workers unwilling to accept workplace subordination #corroborates (1.00)
• Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337
• Industrialized education systems function as instruments of social control that dehumanize students #complicates (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 283
• Common schooling would unify intellectual and industrial work across social life #expands (0.75)
• Worker skills exceeding their rank threaten the enterprise’s legitimacy #corroborates (0.75) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 893