Manageable

[W]hat shocks is that we should so eagerly have adopted one of the very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens - all in order to render the populace "manageable."
--John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", Prologue, p. xvii