not sure?
I was "blessed" to learn that the USA adopted compulsory educational models based upon the Prussian system.
The Prussian system (to dumb it down) was founded after they had lost some war and when asked why, the officers blamed it on "free thinker" disorderly soldiers who when told to storm the enemies were given retorts such as, "the enemy has the higher ground, we'll get slaughtered!" So rather than acknowledging their soldiers were providing salient perspective, the Prussians decided to institute compulsory education to create obedient soldiers who would follow orders of the teachers, even if the teachers were incorrect.
What's left out of that is that the aristocracy still sent their offspring to institutions which used the seven "classic" subjects (basically exhumed from Roman documents), so the USA inherited that socioeconomic divide too, more generalized in colloquialisms as "Ivy League" privileged sorts. The reality is, that "Ivy League" track begins as early as preschool for the rich and powerful whereas the prison industrial complex/mercenary industrial complex paradigm is similarly in effect for those who are thrown to the whims of compulsory education.
It's not unique to the USA either, Japan also took inspiration from the Prussians.
Anyway, even knowing that, and not being an Ivy League sort, I don't know if it made my experience better. I know someone who never graduated college making $30/hr at a pretty chill job. Whereas I'm a decade older, have a B.A. have been cited in others' Masters and Doctoral publications and mostly just count my blessings that I didn't get ground to even more of a pulp since I never enlisted. As a minor, nps.navy.mil already had me working on their systems pro bono, uncited & I was not the only kid being predated upon in such a manner.
Meanwhile, when incarcerated I met someone in his 40s who was proudly illiterate.
I'm no privileged demon & no complete idiot but I don't think I'm well off either.
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