[DallasBiff]

Period after the civil war was the golden age of Utopian communities - many of which were anarchistic and practiced “free love.” The effects of the war and industrialization caused some people to act a bit odd.

I find these stories from distant history quite interesting, they have hushed them up.

Was Elizabeth the First, really the "Virgin Queen"?

[Jamestown1630]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I#Virginity

[Chickensoup]

The transcendental movement and communities that espoused communist ideology have not been hushed up.

Very lousy educations out there.

[Freedom4US]

I was surprised once, talking with a teacher, of a conservative type. He said if he had a time machine, he would go back and kill John Dewey.

You know, the guy who invented the “Dewey Decimal System” for cataloguing library books. Not for that, obviously. Dewey had some strange ideas about the ultimate purposes of Public Education.