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Replying to @webdevMason
School was not designed to create pliant workers; it was at the risk of it. To defend otherwise will require showing that conformity aimed tactics were more than risk mitigation. For knowledge and ability are clearly risks to compliance.
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Replying to @jhogg17 @webdevMason
*'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.
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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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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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