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History isn't just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History Unplugged

Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual stories that

made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

We take for granted that throughout the industrialized world, education is compulsory for those

between first and twelfth grade. But we're really not that many generations removed from when

education wasn't compulsory. Most children worked on family farms and spent few if any days they

could in the classroom. Primary education up to age 18 was reserved for the wealthy and the

majority didn't learn much beyond basic literacy. At least in the case of the United States,

this all changed when reformers like Horace Mann, who in the early 1800s dreamed of education and

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