Most people I’ve talked to can’t accept that the Prussian model was used in America, they just can’t accept that the goal was as you stated “to transform 94% of their children into docile factory hands and cannon fodder”.
But it’s the truth.
“Most people” have been deceived by the pernicious lie that “people are basically good”,
so they can’t believe that the goals of public education would be anything except to “help people” like the leftists say their goals are.