Nineteenth-century schools scheduled activities down to four-minute increments

Evidence

In the early nineteenth century, the following time-table was suggested for the Écoles mutuelles, or ‘mutual improvement schools’: 8.45 entrance of the monitor, 8.52 the monitor’s summons, 8.56 entrance of the children and prayer, 9.00 the children go to their benches, 9.04 first slate, 9.08 end of dictation, 9.12 second slate, etc. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230

Categorization

• CANDY: A timetable granular to four-minute units is a vivid, tweetable image of how thoroughly schooling partitioned time.
• XREF: connects to: Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 241; The Lancaster school arranged peer time so every pupil hour taught or learned — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 249; Colonial schools imposed age-graded time alien to traditional education — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 498

Related

• The Lancaster school arranged peer time so every pupil hour taught or learned (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial schools imposed age-graded time alien to traditional education (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 241
• The Lancaster school arranged peer time so every pupil hour taught or learned #exemplifies (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 249