School also is a way to force children to get used to factory schedules from industrialism

My kids are presently "stored" at day care so I can work. It's a great environment for them, playing with their peers and learning things. What's so terrible about that?

i work a 30-35 hour a week job. everyone i meet tells me i'm a lazy piece of shit and i need to be working 60 hour weeks.

mostly because they are bitter and jealous. I'm also financially secure... and they aren't... even if they make 2-3x what I do.

I'm pretty sure they learned that from the US though.

I worked hard to earn my money and my place! - same nepo baby

British schools don't start that early, mine was like ten to nine.

Nah, only 99.99% of the time. :)

(I think Sikhs are generally an exception - those folks seem to largely have doing good things figured out pretty well. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I sure haven't heard of any)

Actually the homework debate does have a simple answer, the older you get the less effective it is. Not to mention it was created as a punishment in like, 1097 or some shit.

You can cultivate attention to detail without killing someone's social skills.

yeah it depends on the quality of the homework and instruction generally.... but we dont' want to talk about that because that's difficult to turn into a number.

not to mention... some folks simple take forever to do homework and others don't based on intelligencet and study habits. I never had more than an hour or two of homework a night, and I was in advanced course of study. But i regretted in college... not having more/harder courses, but i went to a shitty school... so there was no option to have more rigorous courses.

Am0k. is recruiting.

Because Jamestown wasn't permanent, it failed. almost everyone died. there was nothing great about it.

There were other settlements that failed, we also don't talk about them.

Plymouth was a much bigger success.

And dumb idiots like yourself are too stupid to realize it's both. Many Republicans literally believe "work is prayer" and that "idle hands are the devil's workshop". This is a thing taught to the poor and the wealthy in countless churches.

Maybe next time you want to bash people you actually know what you're talking about.

...nothing to do with puritanical...

I thought so too and that they were incorrectly referring to Protestant work ethic. Turns out to be the same thing.

The Protestant work ethic, also known as the Calvinist work ethic or the Puritan work ethic, is a work ethic concept in the social sciences, particularly sociology, economics, and history. It emphasizes that a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism, results in diligence, discipline, and frugality.
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Those with the ethic believed that good fortune (e.g. from hard work) is a vindication of God in this life

Still dumb to say that hard work is good because it is hard but some bad ideas die slowly.