The panopticon could experimentally prove universal educability

Evidence

I know who would have been delighted to set up an inspection-school, if it were only for the experiment’s sake, and that is Helvetius: at least, if he had been steady to his principles, which he was said to be: for by that contrivance, and by that alone, he might have been enabled to give an experimental proof of the truth of his position (supposing it to be true) that anybody may be taught anything, one person as well as another. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s thesis that the telescreens extend panoptic control into education and thought-formation — Bentham himself sees the inspection principle as the tool to prove complete behavioral determinism. — connects to: The panopticon amplifies whatever institution it is applied to — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 274; Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 65; The panopticon’s power rests on a fiction at its core — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 31 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Bentham claims Helvetius held that ‘anybody may be taught anything’ — worth verifying Helvetius’s actual position (De l’esprit, 1758) and whether this foreshadows tabula-rasa social engineering.

Related

• The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector (similarity 0.84)
• The panopticon amplifies whatever institution it is applied to (similarity 0.83)
• The panopticon’s power rests on a fiction at its core (similarity 0.83)
• Even mechanical teaching can produce informed, self-ordering pupils (similarity 0.82)
• Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct (similarity 0.81)
• A fabricated fiction of God sustains panoptic deterrence (similarity 0.80)
• Bentham saw the inspection principle as a deceptively simple breakthrough (similarity 0.79)
• Bentham’s inspection principle aims to make students visible at every moment of their time (similarity 0.79)
• The Panopticon’s central vantage mirrors the panorama’s sovereign gaze (similarity 0.79)
• The panopticon produces God the way an assembly line produces a body (similarity 0.79)
• The panoptic inspector must hide for fear his fictional divinity will be exposed (similarity 0.78)
• Panoptic control operates through gaze and voice detached from any bearer (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct #expands (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 65
• The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector #expands (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59
• The panopticon’s power rests on a fiction at its core #complicates (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 31