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The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling
Early America had widespread literacy and a vibrant culture of learning.
Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago.
- Lawrence W. Reed
- FEE
To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago.
Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from government school classrooms, maybe education will become as good as it was before the government ever got involved.
“What?” you exclaim! “Wasn’t…