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Public schooling started with Pennsylvania providing a teacher for every community. One-room schoolhouses provided enough structure to help the kids learn how to learn, without giving the system space to indoctrinate children.

John Taylor Gatto was a prolific writer about the problems of modern schooling.

I find it amusing that they advise bullying victims to completely ignore the abuse immediately after calling bullies disrespectful low-lifes.