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Originally Posted by Mancie
oh .. cram large families into up public libraries to take the slim chance that they will get education.. my my.. you are victorian ain't you.. maybe stick em up chimneys first just to make them aware of the great gift you.. and your foward thinking like minds are giving the future.. lovely stuff.. from a victorian!
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If you'd take off the same narrow blinkers the Tory supporters on here wear, you might see that I'm not saying that at all.
Ninety odd years ago, because of the reforms in the education system, a formal education was an entitlement for all, regardless of background. Even though children weren't educated for as many years as today, they were more literate. Everything from their copperplate handwriting, to their encyclopedic knowledge of the world testifies to this.
Compared to today's post-war, post-hippy liberalism, post-Thatcherism, call it what you will, our education system, which generally, but not exclusively, has produced a generation more concerned with what they can own in way of material possessions, than what they can possess in their minds, is most unfortunate for society, in my opinion.