The monitorial school diffused authority and obedience throughout the whole body without loss

Evidence

In the first phase the aim is to discipline, hence also to level out—to obtain a certain kind of “conformism” which may be called “dynamic”. In the creative phase, on the basis that has been achieved of “collectivisation” of the social type, the aim is to expand the personality—by now autonomous and responsible, but with a solid and homogeneous moral and social conscience. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 347 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A century of school experimentation deepened involvement without ceding control. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 490; The model school functioned as a machine with authority diffused throughout — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 233; Modern schooling creates an individuality that only exists in the act of obedience (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Schooling first levels into dynamic conformism then expands autonomous personality #complicates (0.74) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 347