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@Dianora Education is ... manifold.

There was a great essay I'd run across a few years ago looking at J.S. Mill's take on education as implemented in the 1860s UK, ""John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution". (Review of Social Economy*. Pages 491-507. Published online: 05 Nov 2010.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599

I've some notes here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_role_of_universities_and_primary_education/

Particularly these excerpts:

First, the universities were given the task of providing an unceasing supply of ideologically correct candidates for vital positions in government, church, and business. The state was able to make the faculties of the "venerable institutions" of higher education, or rather indoctrination, assume this duty because it controlled appointments and held the purse from which "emoluments" flowed into the coffers of academics....

The state devised a second educational strategy in order to prevent such a calamity from occurring. According to Mill, the "elementary schools for children of the working classes" were given the task of ensuring that the poor would continue to accept docilely their dismal station in life. It was very easy for the state to force the public schools to assume this role. It did so simply by failing malignantly to allocate sufficient funds for the operations of what Mill identified contemptuously as "places called schools"

More on both at my Reddit post and of course Jensen's article. He's largely citing Public and Parliamentary Speeches and Essays on England Ireland, and the Empire.

Countering propaganda is another aspect of interest to me, and Bernays's observation is trenchant. Pre-innoculation with anti-propaganda does seem at least somewhat effective.

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