Ah don't much care fer you're "book larnin"

[bard_messiah]

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[thejoshu]

I thought the great American tradition was compulsory education enforced by marching children to the schoolhouse gates at gunpoint?

Well, I want to chat with you about those there experiences of yours.

[bard_messiah]

Only since Andrew Carnegie started lobbying for compulsory education in the mid-late 1800s, when he found that people who were trained to do things at the ring of a bell were very efficient on the assembly-line.

Seriously, the institution of free nationwide public schooling had a lot to do with industrialists wanting factory workers who were already used to the regimens that people experience from K-12 today. And I'd love to chat with you anytime.

I'm an unschooler too.

[death_and_taxes]

Woot woot! I got myself one of those there college degrees and I left school durring 1st grade. P.S. I heard you and I were in the same building the other day and you never stopped to say hi to me. You suck so bad. Maybe I'll forgive you if you appologize.

Re: I'm an unschooler too.

[bard_messiah]

Dear Lynne,

I apologize for not stopping to say hi to you when we were in the same building. I forgive you for the same failing.

Love,
John

Are you around in late December and early January?