The Prussian school system was based on dull, repetitive tasks, bells, division of cirriculum and time blocs, long-term isolation from daily life, and building groupthink. The building of knowlege has never been the goal of American public education. Many of those who supported implementing it admitted that much.
Ohhhh plulllezzeee!
Are you actually saying that the Prussian advances in popular education of the early and mid 19th century are our problem one hundred and fifty years on?
Sorry but I say you are not intellectually serious, just a parrot that responds to certain cues, words, etcetera,etcetera, according to type.