The state schools alone are enough to turn children into citizens loyal to the state.
I watched my child. From primary school child until now. Where we as parents still exerted the greatest influence, kindergarten was already a place of social education - because children are already evaluated there for their behaviour in the group. My child has learned that he cannot choose whether he goes to school or not. He understood that early on.
So the realisation that you can't choose who you are educated by is an early one. Children realise that their own parents cannot do anything about compulsory schooling, and so they develop into young people who, because they have internalised at a tender age that they have to comply, now no longer rebel against the school per se, but against their own parents. Sometimes against both, when all adults seem oppressive to them.
Adolescence, when teenagers perceive parents as embarrassing or stupid, is not necessarily a sign of a good process of detachment (though I applaud it) but a redirection of perceived futile rebellion against school because that is the longer and stronger arm of the law. It is therefore easier for teenagers to fight their own parents than to admit to themselves that their rejection has found the wrong addressees. It can take a lifetime before the realisation sets in that one has wrongly perceived one's parents as ignorant and uneducated.
The military and the church do the rest, I agree with you.
The state schools alone are enough to turn children into citizens loyal to the state.
I watched my child. From primary school child until now. Where we as parents still exerted the greatest influence, kindergarten was already a place of social education - because children are already evaluated there for their behaviour in the group. My child has learned that he cannot choose whether he goes to school or not. He understood that early on.
So the realisation that you can't choose who you are educated by is an early one. Children realise that their own parents cannot do anything about compulsory schooling, and so they develop into young people who, because they have internalised at a tender age that they have to comply, now no longer rebel against the school per se, but against their own parents. Sometimes against both, when all adults seem oppressive to them.
Adolescence, when teenagers perceive parents as embarrassing or stupid, is not necessarily a sign of a good process of detachment (though I applaud it) but a redirection of perceived futile rebellion against school because that is the longer and stronger arm of the law. It is therefore easier for teenagers to fight their own parents than to admit to themselves that their rejection has found the wrong addressees. It can take a lifetime before the realisation sets in that one has wrongly perceived one's parents as ignorant and uneducated.
The military and the church do the rest, I agree with you.