Egypt’s national schools aimed to create disciplined civilians, not soldiers

Evidence

In 1847, after four years, the model school in Cairo had fifty-nine pupils. It is not known how faithfully it was modelled on the English original, although the Lancaster school was actively promoted abroad by its English proponents as a model, whose geometric pattern and mathematical functioning could be exactly reproduced abroad, as it was, in almost every part of the world. … These schools were not for creating soldiers, but for creating disciplined members of the community. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 234

Categorization

• XREF: The Lancaster monitorial school as an exportable machine connects to the broader argument about colonial imposition of Western-style discipline and geometric order.