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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 690869" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Go back a hundred years.</p><p>We didn't have this insane pre-occupation with "education".</p><p>Most kids went to school to the end of grade 4, usually age 12 by then, and started "working out" - helping an neighboring farmer, or the farrier, or the blacksmith, or whoever else as an apprentice.</p><p>The girls tended to go to grade 8. Some became nurses or teachers. But many "worked out" as maids, or in factories.</p><p>It was only the highly academic that actually got their grade 12. And then got more.</p><p> </p><p>If you weren't a fit for school, you went and did something else.</p><p>NOW? They want every single kid to be post-secondary prepared.</p><p>Really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 690869, member: 11791"] Go back a hundred years. We didn't have this insane pre-occupation with "education". Most kids went to school to the end of grade 4, usually age 12 by then, and started "working out" - helping an neighboring farmer, or the farrier, or the blacksmith, or whoever else as an apprentice. The girls tended to go to grade 8. Some became nurses or teachers. But many "worked out" as maids, or in factories. It was only the highly academic that actually got their grade 12. And then got more. If you weren't a fit for school, you went and did something else. NOW? They want every single kid to be post-secondary prepared. Really. [/QUOTE]
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