I lied about no posts - could not resist this one from the Support Economy which I am reading now.
On our school system - "By the late 1920's these new mass organizations, schools, workplaces, unions and associations - were fully established and had taken up much of the responsibility once lodged in the family, for teaching the new behavioural norms of modern life and enforcing conformity to those norms. According to one historian, "the establishment of schools was the disestablishment of domesticity". It was in school and work that sons and daughters would be whipped into shape and moulded for the orderly new worlds of production, administration and consumption"
The book is about the end of the mass market idea and the birth of an the individual. A nice trend is the growth of homsechooling. The US Dept of Ed concludes that Homeschooling in the US is on the rise. By 2000 between 1.0 million and 1.7 million kids or 6-12% of kids of school age had participated and a huge new supprt industry is building up around this.
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