Now, as ever, the creation of a workforce to serve the national economy is the openly stated main goal of public education. And, as ever, the inmates of this system are told that their enthusiastic compliance with forced labor will be in their best interests at some future point. Germany’s compulsory education system expressed six outcomes in its original syllabus documents: Obedient soldiers to the army. Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms. Well-subordinated civil servants. Well-subordinated clerks for industry. Citizens who thought alike on most issues. National uniformity in
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