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Prof @UCSanDiego; PhD @Stanford; fellow @CGDev Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" I write and teach about politics and education.
San Diego, CA
Joined March 2018
I'm extremely grateful that "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (@PrincetonUPress) had such a strong 1st week! What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n
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you wonder where people get violent ideas from? "just kill them" says FOX News host about homeless people I'm sure he says he's "pro-life," too
I have heard a lot of awful things but a prominent TV host casually proposing murdering homeless people through lethal injection is one of the worst. "Involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them." https://t.co/Om8gNAwUse
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At #APSA2025? Join me Thursday at 10am at the Author Meets Critics theme panel on "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) w/ @BMagaloni, Pablo Beramendi & @omarwasow We'll discuss state-building, democracy, civil war, academic freedom, and more, and have ample time for Q&A!
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At #APSA2025? Join me Thursday at 10am at the Author Meets Critics theme panel on "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) w/ @BMagaloni, Pablo Beramendi & @omarwasow We'll discuss state-building, democracy, civil war, academic freedom, and more, and have ample time for Q&A!
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Muchas gracias @narodowski por esta resenia sobre mi libro! "Raised to Obey offers an ambitious and compelling reinterpretation of the origins of modern education . . . to rethink contemporary debates on the political function of schooling." https://t.co/3222wAd2Pb
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Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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New in Comparative Education: "Raised to Obey offers an ambitious & compelling reinterpretation of the origins of modern education . . . to rethink contemporary debates on the political function of schooling." - @narodowski Full review https://t.co/03HC09S2V5
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Maybe science benefits from people having strong confidence in their *ability* to discover truth(s), but that's very different from having strong confidence that the truth looks a particular way
EAs hate overconfidence, but imo it's hard to see how you can do revolutionary science without it. An unfortunate quirk of human psychology is that it's hard to ambitiously drive an agenda forward if you don't have extremely high (even deluded) levels of belief in it.
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Great to see this out! It shows the legacy of what I document in "Raised to Obey": mass education was built more to socialize citizens than to teach skills Even *today*, the study shows, policymakers prefer schools that form dutiful citizens over those that boost literacy
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Blast from the past! Do you know where else we've seen politicians talk about "bloodthirsty" criminals? In 19th century arguments for deploying schooling to indoctrinate the "bloodthirsty" masses. I show this in "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) https://t.co/3222wAd2Pb
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Aaaah!! Just learned that "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) has won the 2025 J. David Greenstone Book Prize for the best book in politics and history published in 2023-24. I'm speechless, grateful, and beyond thrilled by this recognition! https://t.co/3222wAd2Pb
amazon.com
Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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Using ChatGPT to write your term paper is like bringing a robot to the gym to lift weights for you — James Gleick
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BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
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Tenured! Grateful to the many mentors, colleagues, and friends whose support has enabled me to thrive. It takes a village.
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Following the Civil Rights Movement, while non-Southern textbooks evolved to better reflect Black activists’ curriculum demands, Alabama textbooks largely retained narratives that minimized or erased the history of racial discrimination. Ungated study:
New in @JHPE_journal: @aspaglayan explores how political elites react when historically marginalized groups mobilize and demand institutional reforms by analyzing state-level curriculum reform in the U.S. South following the Civil Rights Movement. https://t.co/Yj1zeKWf87
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Super stimulating interview for @asteriskmgzn in which we talk about "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) but also: - is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable? - the problem of "low state capacity" - student- vs. teacher-centered schools and more! https://t.co/scSgj9rMqd
asteriskmag.com
The modern education system around the world continues to bear the imprint of mass education’s original goal: obedience.
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Super stimulating interview for @asteriskmgzn in which we talk about "Raised to Obey" (@PrincetonUPress) but also: - is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable? - the problem of "low state capacity" to improve education - student- vs. teacher-centered pedagogies and more!
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The first PhD student whose dissertation I've chaired is graduating a month from today. They just asked me to be their hooding advisor. I have tears in my eyes. May I never take for granted what an honor it is to be someone's trusted advisor.
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The reposts of this thread are depressing -- a sign that many academics can't read an abstract/Twitter thread without bringing their own biases in. The authors don't find reductions in "lifetime achievement" or "learning" etc. as many reposts claim. What they claim is that
🎓 New working paper: "Communism in the Classroom: Long-Run Effects of an Experiment" (with Matti Mitrunen)
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Que bueno que mi libro genere debate sobre lo que se ensenia en la escuela Sin embargo, el tipo de educacion financiera que Javier propone -- donde ciertas ideas se imponen desde arriba a pesar de ser debatibles -- es justamente el tipo de educacion que mi libro critica.
Es increíble el analfabetismo financiero de nuestras sociedades. Incluso entre círculos alta% educados, la gente no sabe las cosas más básicas. Y es quizá el campo de conocimiento de mayor utilidad en la vida. En esta columna hablo al respecto: https://t.co/NVX1drcvCo
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@wsosaescudero @arivas7 agradezco si pueden ampliar difusion
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📚 El martes 22/4, 12:20 h., @aspaglayan presenta su libro: “Raised to Obey. The Rise and Spread of Mass Education” 🏫✨ 🔗 https://t.co/2dBau2Lbpb ⚠️ Es necesario inscribirse para participar @econudesa, @EscuelaEduUdeSA, @CPGyRRII_udesa y @Com_UdeSA 🤝
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