>>24821753
>Prussian style schooling is for statist rightwing conditioning.
Basic education needs to provide access to books in an environment that not only makes children want to read, but also instill in them the desire of curiosity at its greatest heights of aspiration.
The more enthusiastic a child at an early age is at rigorous reading and experimenting, whilst keeping a level of enjoyment and authenticity, the more he is willing to do work smarter and harder later in life. The ideal of Prussian/German universities of the past - the one Humboldt developed, where science and development of knowledge if performed for their own sake, where the end product is not a person with a degree but a citizen who can think critically.
The underlying contradiction is that everyone understands schooling to be a hybrid daycare for future wagies, but it justifies itself with platitudes relating to "citizenship" and "values".
The Prussian model of education are blamed for causing conformity and strictness in America, but this is probably a mistake when Britain and France had similar compulsive schooling and Humboldt specifically stressed individual autonomy. It would be more accurate to blame them for Weltbürgertum (cosmopolitanism) becoming a tenant of education. Even Aristotle advocated for a kind of liberal arts education over a purely vocational one as well, so it's not anything completely new.
When you take the attempt at moral teaching by low-quality women who spent their 20s clubbing, and combine it with teachers unions/book publishers/universities debt trapping students in typical boomer fashion, of course the result is something so ineffective that practically any education system or (even the absence of one) would be preferable.
