Fact #1: American “schooling” (and a lot of other “Western” schooling) is heavily modeled after the Prussian “education” (indoctrination) system.
Fact #2: One of the main proponents of that system (Johann Gottlieb Fichte) openly described the purpose of the system as follows: “Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”