It has not been so “for more than a century” for most people. It was only in the 1950’s that the majority of Americans attended school full-time until the age of 16.
And even then, a century in middle America is an infinitesimal section of the human population through history.
I am not offering a policy prescription for solving a problem. …
It has not been so “for more than a century” for most people. It was only in the 1950’s that the majority of Americans attended school full-time until the age of 16.
And even then, a century in middle America is an infinitesimal section of the human population through history.
I am not offering a policy prescription for solving a problem. I’m not even claiming that there IS a problem. It’s an observation that we have no idea what we’ve done, and might benefit from taking a look.
We need to recognize and acknowledge how remarkably unusual and new this social order is, and ask if there have been unintended negative consequences. If there have, we need to consider whether there are ways to ameliorate those consequences without sacrificing whatever benefits have been gained.
It has not been so “for more than a century” for most people. It was only in the 1950’s that the majority of Americans attended school full-time until the age of 16.
And even then, a century in middle America is an infinitesimal section of the human population through history.
I am not offering a policy prescription for solving a problem. I’m not even claiming that there IS a problem. It’s an observation that we have no idea what we’ve done, and might benefit from taking a look.
We need to recognize and acknowledge how remarkably unusual and new this social order is, and ask if there have been unintended negative consequences. If there have, we need to consider whether there are ways to ameliorate those consequences without sacrificing whatever benefits have been gained.
But until we look, we’ll never know.