School Was Never About Learning: A Short History of Educational Control

You thought school was about learning? Think again. What started in Prussia as a system to produce obedient citizens became the blueprint for American education—standardized, top-down, and engineered for control. From Horace Mann’s moral crusade to Carnegie’s factory logic, this post pulls back the curtain on the school system’s true purpose: not to teach you how to think, but to teach you how to comply. If you’ve ever felt like the classroom was more about quiet than curiosity, this will explain why.