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The Aztecs had mandatory boarding schools which were basically military academies. Plenty of nonwestern societies had mandatory training for children who lived apart from the rest of the community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calmecac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%93lpochcalli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education#By_countr...

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Well obviously schools have existed in any part of society. But schools have always had a purpose - whether it's training future scholars at madrasas, training sons of nobility for war, etc.

The institutionalized mass factory-farmed education system was a direct result of western Christian imperialism and the desire to enforce and spread biblical teachings.

I'd argue it stems from the invention of the nation state and the need to build national identity. Specifically in those areas of Germany/France that blended together. Prior to the current school system you didn't get taught a standard language. More specifically, the modern school system is to teach a nation a common shared language.

> institutionalized mass factory-farmed education system

Please tell us what country anywhere in the world in the past 200 years had an education system that was good, instead of bad. Please explain what the differences were.

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