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On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:26, Rich Johnson was heard to say:
On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
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Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing
very well indeed without coercive "public" schooling.
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That's a bit of an oxymoron.
Not in the terms of the discussion.
The poor were hardly "doing well" if they were poor. _How_ well
were they doing (in your book, that is)?
The discussion is in terms of education. Literacy.
The literacy rate of 90%+ prior to compulsory schooling includes poor.
Just as the literacy rate of 50%- at this time includes poor.
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