The model school functioned as a machine with authority diffused throughout

Evidence

The school was a system of perfect discipline. Students were kept constantly moving from task to task, with every motion and every space disciplined and put to use. Each segment of time was regulated, so that at every moment a student was either receiving instruction, repeating it, supervising, or checking. It was a technique in which the exact position and precise task of each individual at every moment was coordinated, to perform together as a machine. Authority and obedience were diffused, without diminution, throughout the school, implicating every individual in a system of order. The model school was a model of the perfect society. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 233

Categorization

• DEFINE: Encapsulates the monitorial school as a microcosm of disciplined society — a machine-like coordination of position, time, and task with authority distributed rather than centralized.
• XREF: connects to: A century of school experimentation deepened involvement without ceding control. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 490