AFAICT, this is a very typical failure mode for thinking about parenting/early education interventionshttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1061806845872885761 …
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I’ve heard the same. And don’t even talk to me about summers.
Not so much, in the US at least — by the 1830s, 7-17 year-olds made up two-thirds of the factory labor force. Nobody thought they needed minding. Compulsory schooling was partially a Protestant project (the major update, remember, being that individuals could interpret scripture)
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...but compulsory schooling was also partially a project of a burgeoning new state. It was understood (moreso then than now) that educators are a sort of co-parent. Compulsory education gave government considerably greater insight into & control over the upcoming generation
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Totally interesting thanks. The religion part I’d known about, and even written about, but I was in the dark on the point about hours of work. Thanks again!
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