What schools are for

[papasmurf]

Schools for the working class were originally for keeping children off of the streets whilst their parents worked in factories.

[Baron von Lotsov]

We never get told in the press, however I found an interesting website that I would like to share with you. It's the Institute for Fiscal Studies.



This is it.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy.[1] It produces both academic and policy-related findings.[2]



The Institute's aim is to "advance education for the benefit of the public by promoting on a non-political basis the study and discussion of and the exchange and dissemination of information and knowledge concerning national economic and social effects and influences of existing taxes and proposed changes in fiscal systems."[3]



It is located in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, adjacent to the University of Law and close to the British Museum and University College London (UCL).

-Wikipedia

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Right next to Socialism Central or UCL.



Here is a paper I found it had published, and has also been published by Oxford University Press. It's bang up-to-date, it is there to instruct our MPs, after all they only have a limited number of brain cells themselves (see Brexit) and need guidance. Here is one which illustrates where they are guided.



The paper is called:



Abstract



Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that states adopted compulsory schooling laws as a nation-building tool to instil civic values to the culturally diverse migrants during the 'Age of Mass Migration' between 1850 and 1914. We show the adoption of compulsory schooling laws occurred significantly earlier in states that hosted European migrants with lower exposure to civic values in their home countries. Using cross-county data, we show that these migrants had significantly lower demand for American schooling pre-compulsion.[/quote]

This article tests the hypothesis that compulsory schooling laws were introduced to teach the children of migrants who moved to America during the 'Age of Mass Migration' the same civic values, or discipline, taught to American-born children, who were voluntarily attending American common schools in large numbers.

civic values are at the core of state building as they underpin democratic institutions (Glaeser et al., 2007)

Schools

help deal with potential unrest or instability, reduce the costs of social interaction, coordination or information exchange (Bowles and Gintis, 1976; Gradstein and Justman, 2002; Helliwell and Putnam, 2007)

make individuals more likely to take actions to improve the common welfare of their community (Alesina and Reich, 2015).

shape civic values is well established in the social sciences (Almond and Verba, 1963; Kamens, 1988; Brady et al., 1995).

educationalists themselves often list socialisation as a pillar of curriculum design (Dewey, 1944; Bourdieu and Passeron, 1970; Bowles and Gintis, 1976; Gordon and Browne, 2004; Driscoll and Nagel, 2005).

and so on and so on, for millions of words, but hey, you thought school was to do with learning stuff that would enable you to make money. Oh so naive!