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Petruchio comments on Education control? - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: PhilGoetz 17 May 2013 04:32PM

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Comment author: Petruchio 22 May 2013 01:49:18PM *  0 points [-]

IIRC, when public education was first debated, the arguement was that it would create good citizens. Hence the focus of social studies and history.

And I concur, the main purpose for school seems put children into a society and let them develop from there. Not that it does its job particularly well, but there you go.