School discipline was seen as training for obedience to state law

Evidence

The formation of the person’s mind or character in school was the means to social order, Jawish explained, because the students ‘are taught obedience and submission to the school’s discipline and regulations, thereby becoming accustomed to respecting the regulation, discipline, and laws of the state’. The school, he concluded, renders in this respect an enormous assistance to the government. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 333

Categorization

• XREF: The Egyptian official explicitly spells out the school-as-state-apparatus link that Foucault theorizes; connects to education-as-subjection literature.