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Can We Guess Your Level of Education Based on This Random Trivia?
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By: Zoe Samuel
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After the founding of America in 1776, for the first couple of generations, there was no rule that said education was compulsory. After all, the vast majority of children were going ot either be subsistence farmers, go into the trades, learn their job by apprenticing to someone in the field, or do some mind-numbing factory job that didn't require much education . Reading and writing were useful, but much more than that felt like a luxury. There was school, of course, but it was funded by private individuals and philanthropists, meaning you had to either come from a family of means or luck into having your schooling paid for by some benevolent rich person. This meant that it was not until the mid-1800s that primary education began to become available to everyone. While doubtless the first generation of children to be stuck in school did not appreciate this very much, it did lay the groundwork for the middle class to explode and for millions of people to be lifted from poverty and better themselves.
These days, we take school for granted as a fact of childhood. It's just what you do. Still, has it gotten harder or easier since the first universal classrooms were filled? Let's find out!
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