Prussian law makes education compulsory in 1819.

Under the now fully developed three-tired education system, the children of Prussian society are divided into three groups: (1) those who will grow up to make policy, representing one half percent percent of the populace, are taught to think; (2) those who will become doctors, engineers, lawyers and other professionals, representing five and a half percent of the populace, are taught to partially think; (3) the ninety-four percent representing the children of the masses are to learn obedience and how to follow orders.

This latter school of the masses, the volkschulen, divides whole ideas into previously nonexistent subject divisions, thereby discouraging cross-assimilation.

Under this system, the masses will learn: (a) to think what someone else tells them to think about a subject: (b) when to think about it; (c) how long to think about it; (d) when to stop thinking about it; and (e) when to think of something else.