What if the primary purpose of schooling is neither education, nor babysitting, nor incarceration, but consensus creation on a bunch of unnecessary matters in order to manufacture societal trust? 🤔
Primary effect of all schooling seems to be creation of trusted non-family links
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in my memory of school, social dynamics taught law of the jungle, decreased trust
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Actually no I don’t. Schooling seems to create trusted nonkin that are not necessarily friends
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When I went through teacher training they called manufacturing societal trust 'education'. And it's anything but unnecessary.
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The trust is perhaps necessary but the catalytic consensus items are largely arbitrary I think.
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Indoctrination into the national(ist) narrative was very explicitly the purpose of compulsory primary education in l19c and e20c Europe. Weber in PEASANTS INTO FRENCHMEN is very strong on this. So is Gellner in NATIONALISM.
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Well that’s slightly different. Trust in non-family is not the same as trust in impersonal institutions.
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Building social trust has real value; better when the mix of people is more diverse. Downside of K-12 is it is local & in the US, we're very segregated; one reason I support the idea of compulsory (or "strongly incentivized") national service.
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Actually its a place to some extent Teachers bcm gaurdians and nxt friends bcm good supporters, secured place to learn many things and get set to great future ahead .... :) its my point of view , as clgs dnt have chance of gaurdians as students bunk a lot ... ! schl is perfct :)






