Modern state order came to rely on continuous schooling rather than intermittent coercion

Evidence

The same principle of order was manifested in the rebuilding of Cairo and other Egyptian towns and villages to create a system of regular, open streets, in the supervision of hygiene and public health, and above all in the introduction of compulsory schooling. School instruction seemed to offer a means of transforming every youth in the country into an industrious and obedient political subject. In the second half of the nineteenth century the discipline of schooling came to be considered the defining element in the politics of the modern state. Political order was to be achieved not through the intermittent use of coercion but through continuous instruction, inspection, and control. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 24

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader library theme of how institutions substitute for direct force, as in the law-merchant material.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 24