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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by kjhgkjghkj on Monday July 11, 2022 @09:45AM (#32056043)
It's a bit more than that. One under-appreciated component of universal, compulsory education is that there is an ingrained cultural acceptance that kids go to school and at least attempt to learn.

Here's a report from where I live (Wales, UK):

https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2022-04/a...

Overall attendance is continuing to decline in the single-digit range, and there are double-digit declines in attendance amongst selected disadvantaged groups.

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by jkhdigital on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:00AM (#32056236)
Yes, education is mostly a product of culture. Just look at the Jewish people.

Universal compulsory education is a collective affirmation of the value of education in a society, and the extent to which schooling is “taken seriously” is a reflection of how deeply the society embraces this value.

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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster by tcmart14 on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:27AM (#32056607)
To add on to your mention of cultural aspects. It was the cultural shared experience amongst the citizenry that Adam Smith argued was why public education was so important.
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