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Can Public Schools Work? (with Neal McCluskey)

Free Thoughts

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The History of Public Schools

For most of our history, the biggest cleavage has been about religion. So we saw actually a lot of that historically. What is interesting is so you go to the colonial period there isn't much thought that there should be government run schools. And it's really until 1837 a horseman who says he becomes the first secretary of education in Massachusetts said, well, we really got to have common schools. Why? In part, it was religion. He doesn't like Puritanists called congregationalists by this time. I haven't arrived yet. That's the next big wave where industrialization starts,. not the best farming, and lots of rivers.

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