The purpose of the American educational system is to provide compliant workers who will obey their managers. Horace Mann went to Germany and adopted the Prussian Volkschule (people’s school) a compulsory school system, which had as its purpose to produce soldiers who accepted orders which gave us both World War I and the horrors of World War II, in which the excuse for atrocities was that soldiers were merely *obeying orders.*
Schools for the wealthy and elite, on the other hand, prepare their graduates for leadership; hence, the arrogance of Obama, John Kerry and other Harvard et al types.
In the Middle Ages, the first three topics taught were grammar, logic and rhetoric (persuasion), called the Trivium. The next four subjects studied, the Quadrivium, were arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy.
