Progressives loovvve Bismark

“Homeschooling terrifies the Left because the Left is at its core totalitarian, seeking to bring political discipline to every aspect of life — and control of education is essential to that project. The public school is in miniature what the Left believes the world should look like: Everybody arranged in orderly rows and moving about on an orderly schedule punctuated by bells, being taught about diversity and climate change by nice union ladies who also lead them to their federally subsidized lunches.”

Horace Mann and Chancellor Bismark gave to us the Prussian education and social security systems.

“W. E. B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless other founders of modern American liberalism were among the nine thousand Americans who studied in German universities during the nineteenth century. When the American Economic Association was formed, five of the six first officers had studied in Germany. At least twenty of its first twenty-six presidents had as well. In 1906 a professor at Yale polled the top 116 economists and social scientists in America; more than half had studied in Germany for at least a year. By their own testimony, these intellectuals felt ‘liberated’ by the experience of studying in an intellectual environment predicated on the assumption that experts could mold society like clay.”

(T.R. and Wilson were early advocates.)

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/01/13/prussian-system/

(At maggiesfarm.)