A Note On Modern Schooling

Contemporary education is now considered a worthy sport for the up and coming postmodernist gentleman or lass.  However, modern tutelage is borne from its roots before learning was prized, and was only considered the foppish province of the hair-encurled dandy.  In this era, the garden variety child was set to the honorable duty of millinery work or grub collecting (for fish mongers' children only).  Schooling was considered a fashion statement, an outward comment on the amount of time being spent not toiling in the underground salt mines.  Due to the rise of industrial machinery, and thus increasingly more robo-centric literary work, the attitude about knowledge-trolling (as learning was called) abruptly changed.  Concerned adults propagated the idea that the youth would now be required to spend their days learning the weaknesses of our impending mechnical overlords.  The decision was reached in 1907 that in all likelihood, a robot's main liability would be its inability to barter with humans over the price of a can of oil.  This also caused the highly-controversial 1908 decision by the Securities and Exchange commission to outlaw robots from participating in commodities trading at the New York Stock Exchange.  It also fostered a renewed vigor in the human ideal of the free market, the final straw for any hope of mechanical revolution.  To this day, children learn at an ever faster pace, at most schools consuming required hourly coffee beverages to keep up with the pace of technology, always wary of the spectre of revolution.  Next time, we'll cover more cultural matters.