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*'at the risk or reducing compliance', as the second clause of the first semtence, would be more formal eg better logic. Anywho. Didnt want to leave you hanging if you were sick of getting away with loose stream of thought. Eg wanted a fight. So take that.
Compulsory childhood education genuinely was designed to train adherence to authority & serve the labor market that existed at the time, and the format hasn't changed much. But yes, learning *does* present a risk to compliance, which is why very little of it happens at school
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As you've pointed out, there are tons of great resources in schools, but students are given limited access to them. I think they're mostly props, tbh.https://twitter.com/jhogg17/status/989523555002994693 …
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In elementary school, I would stay in at recess to read -- this became a "problem," and I was forced outside. I'd read when the teacher was distracted, then be chided to "stay on task" & do the rote work I already knew how to do. I resorted to smuggling books into the bathroom.
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I think that in the modern era, compulsion goes back to Martin Luther or thereabouts and was directed at adherence to religious authority particularly, rather than that needed for the labour market. Though there is the Protestant Work Ethic, of course...
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I've got a book with a great chapter on this. I'm digging around for it, but the book piles in this apartment are intense
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John Taylor Gatto has a famous essay laying all of this out... to say otherwise you'd best be served by studying this to start crafting any rebuttals http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
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