Horace Mann saw schooling as the sole counter to capitalist class domination

Evidence

Nothing but universal education can counter work this tendency to the domination of capital and the servility of labor. If one class possesses all of the wealth and the education, while the residue of society is ignorant and poor … the latter in fact and in truth, will be the servile dependents and subjects of the form er. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 333

Categorization

• XREF: Mann’s claim links to the ideology literature showing schooling framed as anticapitalist equalizer — resonates with Annihilation of Caste’s treatment of schooling-merit discourse as masking entrenched hierarchy. — connects to: Capitalist development required the active re-education and moralization of working-class culture; US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 363; Corporate capitalism’s rise shaped the Progressive Movement in American schooling — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 654 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist development required the active re-education and moralization of working-class culture #expands (0.85)
• Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle #expands (0.85)
• Capitalist formation required the continuous re-education and cultural remaking of working people #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 993
• US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality #exemplifies (0.82) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 363
• Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling #expands (0.80) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 569
• Bourgeois rule transforms the State into an educator assimilating all classes #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 967
• Early 20th-century educators explicitly saw schools as training children to accept inequality #exemplifies (0.78) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 938
• Corporate capitalism’s rise shaped the Progressive Movement in American schooling #qualifies (0.72) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 654
• Classroom decorum rules covertly enforce bourgeois values on working-class students #exemplifies (0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 353
• Education’s centrality in American reform reflects accommodation to capitalism, not ideology #complicates (0.72) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 283