badgenome said:
The worst indoctrination is neither liberal nor conservative, but statist. And since public schools do such a poor job at education, statist indoctrination seems to be the main purpose of the things. |
Both (modern) liberals and (modern) conservatives are statists, so it was implied. Although by statist, do you mean those "truths" which both groups accept? Then yes, I agree, beause there is no dissenting voice to dismantle that propaganda.
The origin of public schools was indoctrination, of course. That is why most states hold a jealous monopoly on education, and why in the countries public school originated in (Prussia ->>> Modern Germany) all other forms of education are banned or heavily regulated (even moreso than the U.S.)
Upon becoming the secretary of education in Massachusetts in 1837, Horace Mann (1796–1859) worked to create a statewide system of professional teachers, based on the Prussian model of "common schools," which referred to the belief that everyone was entitled to the same content in education. Mann's early efforts focused primarily on elementary education and on preparing teachers. The common-school movement quickly gained strength across the North. Connecticut adopted a similar system in 1849, and Massachusetts passed a compulsory attendance law in 1852.
Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially among fellow Whigs, for building public schools. Indeed, most states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts, especially the program for "normal schools" to train professional teachers.
The underlined sentence says it all. It was meant to refine students into statists.
