There's a whole long discussion to be had on the purpose of education, and it goes back a long ways

TL;DR: skills vs. reasoning.

For oligarchs, especially of public education, it is a skills-manufacturing pipeline for producing an efficient but docile wage-slave workforce.

For themselves, they reserve critical thinking, un-bowdlerized. Yes, an eponym.

As Brother Mouzone said in The Wire: "You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? N-----r with a library card."

https://invidio.us/watch?v=bRCyZydgqdc

It's the liberal arts vs. the servile arts. "Liberal" because they are liberating, essential to freepersons. It's the undercurrent of virtually all education reform

And this goes back a ways. Hardly the first, but: On the role of Universities and Primary Education as Social Indoctrination: John Stuart Mill via Hans Jensen, from the 1860s.

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