{"id":187131,"date":"2025-06-30T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=187131"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:20:05","slug":"todays-quote-prussian-schooling-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-prussian-schooling-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s quote, Prussian schooling edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Moore<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pity poor Horace Mann, Henry Bernard and other \u2018educationists\u2019 trying to sell modern schooling to such people. They had to convince such an educated population to hand over their children\u2019s education to experts. Basically, the educators failed to convince Americans. Mann started pitching Prussian schooling, otherwise known as compulsory age-segregated classroom instruction, before 1837, but it took a dozen years and special circumstances to get the first school off the ground. That first school in 1848 in Boston snuck by because it targeted immigrants. \u2018Real\u2019 Americans didn\u2019t send their kids there; those \u2018real\u2019 Americans became convinced that it was a good to use the state\u2019s power to beat a little of the right kind of Jesus into the skulls of the Irish Papists kids that were showing up in Boston in large numbers at that time (the Irish Potato Famine began in 1845). From the very beginning down to this day, schooling is seen by the self-appointed Enlightened as a way to correct the moral defects \u2013 Catholicism back then, all the \u2018bigotry\u2019 and \u2018hatred\u2019 today (which of course includes Catholicism) \u2013 of the unwashed masses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Moore: Pity poor Horace Mann, Henry Bernard and other \u2018educationists\u2019 trying to sell modern schooling to such people. They had to convince such an educated population to hand over their children\u2019s education to experts. Basically, the educators failed to convince Americans. Mann started pitching Prussian schooling, otherwise known as compulsory age-segregated classroom instruction, before … Continue reading “Today’s quote, Prussian schooling edition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-MGf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187132,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187131\/revisions\/187132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}