Standardized Compulsory Schooling.

How did a Prussian system of dumbing children down take hold in American schools?
TPTB from the very start have desired an easy to control and exploit population.

The Public School Nightmare:
Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?

There is no reason to fix it, it works perfectly turning out bureaucrats who mindlessly enforce stupid laws and rules. Cops who will brutalize and kill on orders and soldiers who will kill or die for corporate profits.

Without the drones the empire would collapse or would never have been formed, how then would the self appointed parasitic elite live in such a grand style with out working....STFU and get back to work slave!!!