The Prussian-Industrial History of Public Schooling

(Approx. 8 page PDF). "William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education (1889-1906): 

'[Ideally] ninety-nine [students] out of one hundred are automata, careful to walk in 

prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the 

result of substantial education, which scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the 

individual [emphasis added].'"