Devils advocate: Schooling is expensive and not every country can afford it. Before schooling, children used to work year round as soon as they were able. In f

Devils advocate: Schooling is expensive and not every country can afford it. Before schooling, children used to work year round as soon as they were able. In fact big families were primarily for the labor. Isn't this better than families being poor and dying from starvation? This is part of the growing pains of being a developing country.