walshemj parent
Your buying into the argument people who are poor deserve it some how. That's a similar argument used against the 8 hour day - the working classes would waste this extra new time on drink and enjoying themselves.
> Your buying into the argument people who are poor deserve it some how.
Not sure how you got that impression. If you thought that the 'large enough to stimulate people to learn' is a factor in that: I was thinking of kids looking around them seeing zero advantage of having an education might not be incentivized enough to acquire one.