[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.

[SoftballMominVA]

..and unfortunately raised the most spoiled generation that will most as likely undo all the good they did. It will be up to a future generation to undo the sociological damage done by the baby boomers - all raised by the 'greatest generation.'