I'm saying that this policy of apprenticeships and the like has continued for thousands of generations, not that it ended thousands of generations ago. Apprenti

I'm saying that this policy of apprenticeships and the like has continued for thousands of generations, not that it ended thousands of generations ago. Apprenticeships still exist, both formal and informal. There's a good chance that either we evolved to it, or it evolved to us, over that time span. Much less so with respect to mass education. Mass education abandoned Chesterton's fence. For reasons, but pedagogical adaptations were still lost with the abandonment of it. And now educators need to relearn and reimplement structures which fulfill the purpose of those lost adaptations. The process of reimplementing these purposes (and adapting to novel purposes that come with non-lifelong-employment) means that students are still falling through the cracks.