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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 2 years ago
i highly recommend gatto's "the underground history of american education", it's the most straight talk exploration of how we got to now that i've seen, and it runs a good mix of conveying gestalts and overviews while leaving enough refs to primary sources for me to verify shit
Fred@FriedKielbasa• almost 2 years ago
Replying to @natural_hazard
@natural_hazard forgot which book of his mentions this but the bit about high literacy rates in colonial america hits a bit different after reading albion's seed. i wonder how much could be attributed to immense social pressure