This is very much what Richard Mitchell used to write of in his home-published magazine The Underground Grammarian.  I really miss that publication, and I miss Mitchell himself who now has been slipped below the surface like a battery powering the rest of us.

Mitchell claimed that far from being a failure, American Education was in fact a raging success--if looked at in terms of what its actual purpose is, namely the production of "citizens" who would be somewhat productive, and yet unlikely ever to challenge the status quo by thinking for themselves.

All of Mitchell's writings are available online.  Anyone interested in reading him can google "richard mitchell underground grammarian" and be shown a link to the repository.  I recommend his books "Less Than Words Can Say" and "The Leaning Tower of Babel" and "The Graves of Academe" along with "The Gift of Fire."  When he's "on," he's a great read.

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