HORACE MANN~PRUSSIA AND MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE MIND IMAN GADZHI

While employed by the Massachusetts Board of Education, Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, traveled to Germany to study the Prussian education system, which itself had been developed as a means to subdue and control populations which the Prussian army had recently invaded.
The Ford Foundation (Ford Motors), The Rockefeller Foundation (Standard Oil), and especially The Carnegie Foundation (Carnegie Steel Company) were the key contributors that shaped the character of public schools and their curricula. If the Prussian military designed the manner of instruction, fossil-fuel industrialists defined its contents.