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I agree. Do you have any sources for these kinds of numbers? Did you have a time or place in mind by "before modern times"?

• danieltillett 11y ago
  Pre-industrial revolution everyone worked from home (or more accurately from the field). Children were basically with their parents working the whole time. Of course a few rich and middle class children were in school or the hands of tutors and nannies, but there were so few of these compared to peasants that they are not really worth considering. When I was a university professor I used to play a game with my first year students. On the way into the first lecture they had to draw a card out of a barrel at random that had their life's story if they had been born before science. It was a rare class if anyone was anything other than a peasant or dead.