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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

footfootfoot, I think you are talking about the hidden curriculum.

thanks for that link. It lead me to this one:
http://www.noogenesis.com/game_theory/Gatto/Gatto.html

An excerpt from that page:


"Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the state of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted - sometimes with guns - by an estimated eighty per cent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880's when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard."

Bruce spells out some of the impacts of smaller classes quite well. (As if we'd expect less)

Taken a few steps further one gets into the territory of "unschooling". Which, although it won't prepare a child for life as a cube farmer or telemarketer or call center operator, isn't a bad way to spend a good part of one's life.