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The Importance of Education in the Industrial Revolution
Since 1910, the North has been a depressed area of England with less education and lower life expectancy. And it is a puzzle about why would this area have flourished roughly for 100 years before going into this terminal decline. The North actually had very significant outmigration of educated people. It really suggests that there may be a strong role to play in economic advance of the kind of the underlying level of education or abilities.