 Some contemporary critics of Locke, inspired by Foucault, argue that Locke’s education is not a recipe for liberty but for forming children who will be compliant subjects of liberal regimes (Baltes 2016, Carrig 2001, Metha 1992). Locke encourages parents to tightly regulate the social environments of children to avoid children being corrupted by the wrong ideas and influences. Locke hopes for children who have internalized strong powers of self-denial and a work ethic that will make them compliant in an emerging modern economy. If parents are tightly controlling the child’s educational environment with the goal of producing a particular sort of child, and if in reality people are primarily guided by the repetitional norms that govern praise and blame, critics claim that this reveals the autonomous liberal subject to be, in reality, a guise for imposed conformity.