Submission Training

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Submission Training with a Hidden Curriculum is the decades-long training children get that teaches them how to conform, comply, and submit to authority. Submission training is an Exploitative Technique used by System Agents to maintain and reinforce The System. Submission training is an essential component of the The System.

The Regime of Accumulation

The System consists of the following five components: Mode of Accumulation, Mode of Production, Mode of Reproduction

Syncretic Terms

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Non-LP Related Terms

Submission Training > Hidden Curriculum

Notes

As Giroux (1983) notes, part of the hidden curriculum is aimed not only at creating a hierarchical status quo, but maintaining it as well by silencing and controlling children and adolescents.

When you put children into a series of rows and tell them that they cannot talk and that they have to listen to you as teacher, the hidden curriculum that is being transmitted is that they do not have the right to talk, that they do not have the right to be part of the way of educating. When a teacher gets up and says that they have the authority in class and that nobody can question that, they are not saying that they are teaching them to be passive and not demand responsibilities of the powers, but that the hidden curriculum is very clear. If you examine what is really being taught there, you see that education is a way of silencing [1][2]

This Reddit meme sums it up quite nicely.

Footnotes

  1. Giroux quoted inFrança, João. 2019. “Henry Giroux: ‘Those Arguing That Education Should Be Neutral Are Really Arguing for a Version of Education in Which Nobody Is Accountable.’” CCCB LAB. Retrieved February 21, 2021 (http://lab.cccb.org/en/henry-giroux-those-arguing-that-education-should-be-neutral-are-really-arguing-for-a-version-of-education-in-which-nobody-is-accountable/).
  2. See also Giroux, Henry. Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1983.