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 RC> Unfortunately, keeping children out of the labor market
 RC> doesn't automatically place them in an education program.
 
 JH> True, but then the churches would be free to offer a kinder
 JH> solution. Back in Puritan colonies, the church _was_ the
 JH> school. 
 RB> I am constrained to point out that the Puritan colonies are
 RB> nearly two and a half centuries ago. 
What of the neopuritans of the nanny state?
 JH> And it was seen as a responsibility of the church to
 JH> provide the poor with an education. 
 RB> Like the magnificent job the churches in Europe did for the
 RB> peasentry during the Dark Ages? 
Different policy then, Roland. Literacy by anyone beyond
the clerical and merchant classes was threatening. Few of
the nobility were literate. 
... Socialism: the politics of co-dependance and denial.
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