This project investigates how technocapitalist logics have influenced educational imagination over the past century. Drawing on a historical and discursive analysis that spans from the early 20th-century machine-centered era to contemporary algorithmic systems, the project examines how narratives of efficiency, optimization, and technical rationality became naturalized as desirable (and even inevitable)goals for education. By tracing the continuity of these ideas across industrial, neoliberal, and digital phases, the project explores how sociotechnical imaginaries limit what becomes thinkable and possible in education, and how they tether the future of schooling to capitalist visions of progress.