"Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education"
Podcast with Agustina Paglayan
Professor Agustina Paglayan (at UC San Diego) has a fascinating new book: “Raised to Obey”! She contends that mass primary education systems were primarily established to consolidate state authority and maintain control. Anyone who seeks to improve learning outcomes today should therefore engage with political economy!
Agustina is both brilliant and provocative! We discussed her findings on my podcast, “Rocking Our Priors”. You can listen on iTunes or Spotify, or watch on YouTube. Below, I provide a full transcript.
