Horace Mann, father of the modern, State run education system, based his ideas on the Prussian system. A system designed to control the minds of the masses to follow the desires of the Government. The following is found in Mann's Education Reports for the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1844. The Prussian system was designed in order to produce non-independent thinking soldiers, so they would gladly follow whatever orders given by their govnernment.

"Among the nations of Europe, Prussia has long enjoyed the most distinguished reputation for the excellence of its schools. In reviews, in speeches, in tracts, and even in graver works devoted to the cause of education, its schools have been exhibited as models for the imitation of the rest of Christendom. For many years, scarce_a suspicion was breathed that the general plan of education in that kingdom was not sound in theory arid most beneficial in practice. Recently, however, grave charges have been preferred against it by high authority. The popular traveller, Laing, has devoted several chapters of his large work on Prussia, to the disparagement of its school system. An octavo volume, entitled " The Age of Great Cities," has recently appeared in England, in which that system is strongly condemned; and during the pendency of the famous "Factories' Bill," before the British House of Commons, in 1843, numerous Tracts were issued from the English press, not merely calling in question, but strongly denouncing the whole plan of education in Prussia, as being not only designed to produce, but as actually producing a spirit of blind acquiescence to arbitrary power, in things spiritual as well as temporal,—as being, in fine, a system of education, adapted to enslave and not to enfranchise the human mind. And even in some parts of the United States,— the very nature and essence of whose institutions consist in the idea that the people are wise enough to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong,—even here, some have been illiberal enough to condemn, in advance, everything that savors of the Prussian system, because that system is sustained by arbitrary power."

The ability to control the minds of the young in order to produce a single mindset among a nation was put into place prior to the Civil War in the areas of the Nation (Free States) using public schools following the Massachusetts (Prussian) system- called Normal Schools. If was introduced to the South, via the era of Reconstruction, after the Civil War. This is the same system that produced the German war machines of the 20th Century. American History books for public schools only tell the dates, the names, and places...but never the why..this was by design.

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David Upton