[gidget7]

All very valid point, there. And lest we forget, why for hundreds of years, children had recess, specifically for the purpose of getting rid of energy, and thus recharging them. It was considered normal and common knowledge that children could not and should not have to, sit for that long without getting fidgety and bored.

[wintertime]

And lest we forget, why for hundreds of years, children had recess

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Institutionalizing children for their education is a very **recent** phenomena. The institution of wide spread and universal compulsory government schools are little more than one hundred years old. In some states compulsory schools were not mandatory until the early 1900s.

Certainly, the factory-like schools that we see dotting the landscape are **very recent**. My own mother and father, who are 93 attended very small neighborhood schools, walked home for lunch ( as I did), knew the parents of their classmates,,,,,and,,,most ( being still rural) of their contemporaries were educated in one room school houses.

It is amazingly, but my parents' generation won WWII, built the interstate highway system, put a man on the moon, discovered viruses, unraveled DNA, conquered polio and smallpox, invented transistors, built the telephone system, invented open heart surgery and antibiotics,,,etc.