The West's idea of standardized education's primary goal was to create nation state identity and a standardized language needed for such. Prior to it the French/German borders (along with languages) kind of blended together, and a clear 'nationalist' identity didn't really exist. But once standardized French/German started being taught nationwide a clearer division could be established along with a uniform national 'identity'. Reading pre-WW1 european discourse versus post shows a much different concept of 'national' identity and borders.
Strongly enforced standardized languages were established as part of this process. I don't think public education/nationalism/identity based on language can be separated. It will be interesting to see what happens when all of this is placed under a new filter/resynthesized via AI.
I think removing individual teachers that change year after year, and who add additional thoughts than the 'national boards' and replacing them with an AI teacher that stays with you as you grow, feeding the same basic digested generic education as everyone else gets, will be incredibly powerful (because it will be able to teach each at their level) but also increase the move to a monoculture/nationalist education (in that the entire nation is fed the same thing, having a single, agreed upon set of 'truths' from the same 'source' removing that final divergence that was individual teachers changed up quarterly/yearly).
Strongly enforced standardized languages were established as part of this process. I don't think public education/nationalism/identity based on language can be separated. It will be interesting to see what happens when all of this is placed under a new filter/resynthesized via AI.
I think removing individual teachers that change year after year, and who add additional thoughts than the 'national boards' and replacing them with an AI teacher that stays with you as you grow, feeding the same basic digested generic education as everyone else gets, will be incredibly powerful (because it will be able to teach each at their level) but also increase the move to a monoculture/nationalist education (in that the entire nation is fed the same thing, having a single, agreed upon set of 'truths' from the same 'source' removing that final divergence that was individual teachers changed up quarterly/yearly).