The Oligarchs’ have a century old death lock on education, that is revealed by this strategy. It was outlined in oligarch (Wedgewood Ceramics fortune) Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. The top 1 in 200 students was identified as an Alpha, 6 in 200 were designated as Betas, the rest to fight it out, the dumb kids the Epsilons.
It was the Germans, the Prussians of Berlin and Leipzig who made it work as a social machine. The Prussians lost to Napoleon in 1806 at the Battle of Jena, because their soldiers were told to act independently – “every corporal with a Field Marshal’s baton in his rucksack.” Philosopher Johann Fichte demanded, in “Addresses to the German Nation”, 1808-1818, that Prussian King Wilhelm institute the myrmidization of education, running working German children through Spartan education, to make them more compliant on the factory floor and on the battlefield—it worked, the Germans beat the French in 1870, World War 1 & 2 resulted.
It was spread worldwide by disciples of Pavlov’s teacher, Wilhelm Wundt, who regarded humans simply as stimulus and response machines. The Psychology department chairmen of all countries, even Japan and China, studied under Wundt.
It is detailed in the free PDF, The Leipzig Connection, https://thebridgelifeinthemix.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-Leipzig-Connection-Systematic-Destruction-of-American-Education-1993.pdf
The class system instituted in the foundation of all modern education, has the students themselves enforcing social conformity. Today it is being accomplished by the close connection between public school ChromeBooks and the students’ cell phones—I heard a teacher remark about a current events discussion, “Now how does that fit in with racism?
That sir, is an outstanding, educational post.