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> why don't we go full Spartan and take the kids away from the parents right after they're born and have schools teach everything. I feel like that was the rea
by baldfat 11y ago
> why don't we go full Spartan and take the kids away from the parents right after they're born and have schools teach everything.
I feel like that was the reason we had boarding school for the rich and apprenticeships in the early modern period. Children didn't stay with you in the city at around 12 you shipped them off to be an apprentices and live with the master or you went to a boarding school or college by 12 or 13.
- jahewson 11y agoThe Victorians took this one step further, creating boarding schools for the middle classes to remove the children from "the noxious influence of home" (Nathaniel Woodard); an idea which had its roots in Presbyterian preechings.