Education and Social Control – Neal McCluskey

Agustina S. Paglayan's new book Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education is a theory.

She argues mass elementary education has often been ineffective at providing skills and knowledge crucial for upward mobility.

For many public education founders, control, not elevation, was the focus, she says.

Elizabeth Paglayan's new book, "The 1619 Project," is published by the Pulitzer Center for Education .

She says she draws historical evidence from countries' history of education and education.

But she says she might go too far in assigning blame for what happens in schools to pacifying indoctrination.

Peter Bergen : Public education has not always been liberal or benevolent, with public schools sometimes used to “ Americanize ” people.

Raised to Obey is a valuable contribution to the ongoing education policy debate in the U.S. and beyond.

It makes clear that public schooling has, in many cases, not been created primarily to empower students, but for social control.

Education need not be virtue or human capital. It can be virtue and human capital.