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Subject:Getting that degree From:Steven Owens <uso01 -at- MAILHOST -dot- UNIDATA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:46:14 -0600
> I remember reading that public education was introduced at the
> beginning of the industrial revolution to train the agrarian
> population to show up at the factory on time (by the clock, not by
> the sun) and work according to a schedule.
You were probably reading Alvin Toffler's _Third Wave_. I ran into
this elsewhere in some sociology classes in college. According to
Toffler and some others, the "latent" purposes of public schooling
were to train kids to:
show up on time
respect authority
perform repetetive tasks