Schooling disciplines students through practices borrowed from army life

Evidence

As in the Lancaster model school, learning is a process of discipline, inspection and continuous obedience. Like the army, the school offers unprecedented techniques by which students can be ‘fixed’ in their place and their lives meticulously regulated. Every hour of the day has been marked out, divided into separate activities whose boundaries are given not in the unfolding of the activity but in the abstract dimensions of hours and minutes. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 258

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s discipline and punishment analysis of the timetable and the carceral school regime, and to the broader theme that education is bodily training rather than content transfer. — connects to: Schools reward discipline and subordinacy regardless of their effect on achievement — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 505; Schooling has historically perpetuated social and ecological violence despite appearing benign. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 670