Summary

The subject of the lectures is the problem of the real education’s purpose. There is a common belief that
educational institutions are established to create an enthusiastic, clever and curious person, who can
not only achieve personal success, but also invent something new and groundbreaking for the world.
Authors of the videos claim that the objective aim of the schooling is to bring up the mass of obedient,
conforming people, whose skills and talents will match the average level.

The lectures touch upon the history of a compulsory education and authors emphasize the forming of
the Factory Model of schooling, which has become a starting point for the development of a
standardized system of teaching, submission to the authority, and the lack of freedom in the search for
the truth. Lecturers claim that the construction of standardized citizenry, the suppression of an
originality has been the goal of many influential educational reformers. A comprehensive social control,
which is exercised in public schools, on the one hand, facilitates the stability, but on the other hand,
precludes the progress. Therein lies the problem, which was highlighted by the authors of the lectures.

Overall, authors assert that educational institutes should enable pupils to develop their natural
curiosity and abandon short-sighted view on the world.