Author: A. Liu Affiliation: Independent Researcher Received 16 March 2024; Revised 1 May 2024; Accepted 16 May 2024; Available online 1 June 2024; Version of Record 1 June 2024. Volume 1, December 2024, (10003) Abstract Education has always been a mechanism for societies to reproduce knowledge, distribute authority, coordinate collective life and cope with uncertainty. The article reinterprets a broad historical account of education as a theoretically sharper conceptual-histo