Well, from what I gather they don’t look like they were taking responsibility for the kids education. The acquaintance said “this is how everyone used to learn” but A) not in living memory it isn’t, and B) people were largely illiterate when this was true. I’m totally down with one-room schoolhouse type learning which is prevalent in homeschooling households, but it looks like they were living like hamsters, frankly.
You can tell from a few photos?? You’re amazing. I bet you went to government indoctrination centers (aka skools) for your education! How else could you know so much?!