Thread by @DeAngelisCorey

compulsory schooling was created for the purpose of indoctrination

"The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will."
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1807)

Forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver:

•Obedient soldiers to the army;
•Obedient workers to the mines;
•Well subordinated civil servants to government;
•Well subordinated clerks to industry
- @realjohngatto

"Our schools of learning, by producing one general and uniform system of education, will render the mass of the people more homogeneous and thereby fit them more easily for uniform and peaceable government."

- Benjamin Rush (1786)

"In the education of youth, let the authority of our masters be as absolute as possible."
- Benjamin Rush (1786)

"Unless we educate our immigrants they will be our ruin. It is no longer a question of benevolence, of duty, or of enlightened self-interest…we are prompted to it by the instinct of self-preservation."

- Calvin Stowe (1836)

"The ignorant must be allured to learn... And if they will not thus be allured, they must be taken by the strong arm of government and brought out, willing or unwilling, and made to learn, at least enough to make them peaceable and good citizens."

- James Carter (1826)