Public schooling in America was founded to produce a properly subordinate adult population

Evidence

Students are rewarded for exhibiting discipline, subordinacy, intellectually as opposed to emotionally oriented behavior, and hard work independent from intrinsic task motivation. Moreover, these traits are rewarded independently of any effect of “proper demeanor” on scholastic achievement. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 505 (#builds-on, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schools reward discipline and subordinacy regardless of their effect on achievement — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 505; US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 363; Modern schooling creates an individuality that only exists in the act of obedience (+6 more)

Related

• Schools reward discipline and subordinacy regardless of their effect on achievement (similarity 0.89)
• The U.S. public school system has always aimed at producing subordinate adults. (similarity 0.89)
• Profit imperatives, not human capacities, shape American schooling (similarity 0.82)
• Education can nurture workers unwilling to accept workplace domination (similarity 0.82)
• Schooling can breed workers unwilling to accept workplace subordination (similarity 0.82)
• US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality (similarity 0.81)
• Schools replicate workplace dominance hierarchies to produce a docile labor force. (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling (similarity 0.79)
• Even progressive educators preserved top-down control over children. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modern schooling creates an individuality that only exists in the act of obedience #expands (0.86)