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School Built For Industrial Needs
- Public schooling was built to produce obedient, interchangeable workers for the industrial age.
- That system still shapes habits like holding back effort and valuing compliance over creativity.
Hammering Lesson Turned Into Compliance
- Seth describes a classroom project where kids hammered brads then the teacher threw them away.
- The teacher used the exercise to enforce obedience, not to value the students' work.
Tests And 'Normal' Schools Standardized People
- Standardized tests and 'normal' teacher training served to sort and standardize students for factories.
- These systems prioritized uniformity and ease of processing over genuine learning.