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Originally Posted by crich70
Yes but didn't she finish her own education by age 16 or so? Then after some time go on to teach? Our knowledge has grown a lot in the past century. No doubt not everyone has been able to keep up with all the new developments. I mean round the turn of the last century few people understood Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" for example and now many have at least an idea of what it's about even if they don't always understand the math behind it. Sometimes I think knowledge expands faster than our ability to process it. And everyone still has to start with the basics before they go on to the more advanced stuff. Do the basics even get the time they need to be taught anymore?
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Well, I meant it largely as sarcasm. A major issue to her that comes out in the books is that most children didn't finish schooling at all -- the boys were needed to work the farms and the girls to work around the house, so after a few grades, the kids just stopped showing up at school and there wasn't much the teacher could do about it.
Kids staying in school from pre-school to their senior year is actually a pretty new thing for America. So this OMG KIDS HAVE NO SELF CONTROL meme is pretty....divorced from historical analysis. IMHO.
