Profit imperatives, not human capacities, shape American schooling

Evidence

It is the prerogatives of capital and the imperatives of profit, not human capacities and technical realities, which render U.S. schooling what it is. This is our charge. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1158

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader claim that institutions are shaped by class power rather than technical necessity, echoed across the reader’s library on colonial education and civic-republican schooling critiques. — connects to: Early American education reformers aimed to pacify the poor rather than end poverty — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 371; Corporate capitalism’s rise shaped the Progressive Movement in American schooling — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 654; Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 569 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling #corroborates (0.92) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 569
• Public schooling in America was founded to produce a properly subordinate adult population #corroborates (0.90)
• US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality #corroborates (0.88) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 363
• Education’s centrality in American reform reflects accommodation to capitalism, not ideology #corroborates (0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 283