The "history of Education" goes as far as two 2500 years ago, when Socrates created the Academy, or Confucius created the equivalent in China, and other people

The "history of Education" goes as far as two 2500 years ago, when Socrates created the Academy, or Confucius created the equivalent in China, and other people in India. In between we have lots of things, like the creation of the Library of Alexandria, personal master disciple, the creation of guilds, Universities... There were very different models for learning. The factory model did exist long long time ago. Romans teached legionaries this way 2000 years ago. The main difference today is that today this model is the only model in lots of countries. If I want to teach(I am engineer and studied economics too) my children in Germany on my own(homeschooling) I go to jail. That is the Prussian model, forcing the same model onto everybody without alternatives.