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Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018) by johnchristopher on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:36AM (#33272150)
> It’s factory education, and if you’re not a widget of the right shape it cuts you up.

That's a fitting description that matches a factoid I read about mandatory education early days: the goal was to have workers who could read and count to operate industrial machinery.

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Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018) by rgrieselhuber on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:44AM (#33272209)
It’s even worse than that. John Taylor Gatto has written extensively on the problems with government schools.
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Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018) by rumpelstinkin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:29AM (#33272425)
it was also meant, like the army and later tv, to create a uniform national culture and erode local communities in favor of the newborn unnatural countries.
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