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Old 10-27-2014, 12:38 PM
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This is an interesting article on the subject

Compulsory Education
Your link states that public schools were intended to be a mill for the creation of good citizens. I would add to that: A good citizen would have been someone with a work ethic and equipped with certain basic skills so as to accomplish whatever work needed to be done. At least in the beginning.

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