Mass education is a child of a mechanical age

"Mass education is a child of a mechanical age. It grew up along with the production line. It reached maturity just at that historical moment when Western civilization had attained its final extreme of fragmentation and specialization, and had mastered the linear technique of stamping out products in the mass. It was this civilization’s genius to manipulate matter, energy and human life by breaking every useful process down into its functional parts, then producing any required number of each. Just as shaped pieces of metal became components of a locomotive, human specialists become components of the great social machine"

http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/05/mass-education-is-a-child-of-a-mechanical-age/

"All students, [...] , were furnished standard “bodies of knowledge,” vocabularies, concepts and ways of viewing the world."