I'm definitely not a historian so I could very well be wrong.
What were the technologies that made public education possible exactly?
Reading about USA during 1870-1916, USA was quite busy ruthlessly exploiting it's own people (what else is new), the thought of educating them was not a concern - making millions off the broken backs of your own people and building mansions was much more appealing.
"The lives of the people in the cities contrasted sharply.
A small percentage of them had enormous wealth and enjoyed lives of luxury. Below them economically, the larger middle class lived comfortably. But at the bottom of the economic ladder, a huge mass of city people lived in extreme poverty." [0]
Goes perfectly in line with what I've been saying before - capitalists are busy making profits - the British Empire from it's colonies, the USA from it's own people and the floods of immigrants. You know, you exploit what/who you can, it's a hard world out there.
Technology preventing public education? I've heard you need to not live in extreme poverty before public education is even an option for you.
Extreme poverty ended due to technological advancements too I suppose?
What were the technologies that made public education possible exactly?
Reading about USA during 1870-1916, USA was quite busy ruthlessly exploiting it's own people (what else is new), the thought of educating them was not a concern - making millions off the broken backs of your own people and building mansions was much more appealing.
"The lives of the people in the cities contrasted sharply.
A small percentage of them had enormous wealth and enjoyed lives of luxury. Below them economically, the larger middle class lived comfortably. But at the bottom of the economic ladder, a huge mass of city people lived in extreme poverty." [0]
Goes perfectly in line with what I've been saying before - capitalists are busy making profits - the British Empire from it's colonies, the USA from it's own people and the floods of immigrants. You know, you exploit what/who you can, it's a hard world out there.
Technology preventing public education? I've heard you need to not live in extreme poverty before public education is even an option for you.
Extreme poverty ended due to technological advancements too I suppose?
[0] http://www.theusaonline.com/history/industrialization.htm