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Interesting that mandatory schooling in North America coincided with the 2nd Industrial Revolution. Raising a society of well behaved factory workers. "The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition. An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one” , Adam Smith: pioneering philosopher of free-market capitalism.

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