Industrialized education systems function as instruments of social control that dehumanize students

Evidence

Freire (1973) described the educational system in industrialized countries as a means of social control. … Most frightening of all is the level of alienation in which we become robots without even knowing it, marching to unspoken orders and failing to challenge the reason why. We are dehumanized, unable to express our feelings or even our fears. (p. 18) In that light, we hope that this chapter prompts educators to use and foster their students’ critical consciousness to unveil the unspoken orders that cause our schools to be places of inequity. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 283

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism delegates familial discipline to overburdened teachers. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 55; Classrooms either reproduce or resist systems of oppression through education. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 332; Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Classroom decorum rules covertly enforce bourgeois values on working-class students #exemplifies (0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 353
• Rightward education policy advanced by reframing schooling as industrial productivity #corroborates (0.80)
• Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload #complicates (0.75)
• Teacher deskilling under management pedagogies weakens education as a democratic force #corroborates (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 196
• American school curricula systematically erased imperialist, genocidal, and capitalist dimensions of national history #corroborates (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 352
• Technologically educated masses paradoxically exhibit readiness to accept despotism #expands (0.75)
• Immediacy theory compounds academic deskilling caused by plutocratic destruction of education #corroborates (0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 251