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11,000 BCE
Hunters & Gatherers
Children learned by doing
"Play" was essential to survival -
10,000 BCE
Advent of Agriculture
Labor-intensive
Freewill and discovery not valued -
1400
Middle Ages
Children should be subservient
Children beat into submission
Poor children are servants -
Rise of universal schooling
Education is inculcation
Trained children can be better workers
Few subjects taught -
Industrial revolution
Children work intensively in factories
Children treated as slaves -
Education evolves
More subjects are added
School is child's job
Capital punishment lessens -
Beginning of technology
Thomas Edison hopes to improve education
First forms of technology in schools
"Teaching Machine" -
Apple computer initiative
Apple computers in public schools
"Kids Can't Wait"
Thinking, collaborating & communicating -
World Wide Web and the Internet
Information at fingertips
Instant knowledge
Education is more self-driven