To domesticate an animal in this way you must: Separate the young from their parents in the daylight hours. Confine them in an enclosed space with limited stimulation or access to natural habitat. Use rewards and punishments to force them to comply with purposeless tasks. Effectively, the Prussians created a system using the same techniques to manufacture adolescence and thus domesticate their people. The system they invented in the early nineteenth century to administer this change was public education: the radical innovation of universal primary schooling, followed by streaming into trade,
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