Hi Oliver,

My point wasn’t exactly that we would be ’empowering’ them but rather that we have no choice BUT to control them. We enforce ‘normal’ in classrooms that shape how people in our culture interact. it’s neither good nor bad… it is what we are as a civilization. The spartans started education at 7 because they were trying to bread ‘fear’ out of their cutlure to make better warriors. Is that ’empowering’? maybe.