{"id":173521,"date":"2023-07-19T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=173521"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:25:06","slug":"todays-question-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-question-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhanania.com\/p\/the-old-school-reformers-case-for\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hanania<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On what basis did we as a society decide that the ideal way to spend a childhood was to attend government institutions 5 days a week, 7 hours a day, 9 months a year, for 12 years? That most of that time should be spent sitting at a desk, with say one hour for lunch and one for recess?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isegoria.net\/2023\/07\/the-government-tells-children-what-to-read-how-much-and-when-to-exercise-how-often-to-go-to-the-bathroom\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isegoria<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Moore has a notion <a href=\"https:\/\/yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com\/2023\/07\/18\/history-of-modern-schooling-academy-of-ideas-video\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">why that happened<\/a>. (Moore has quite a bit to say about modern education on his website, all of it worth reading.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hanania: On what basis did we as a society decide that the ideal way to spend a childhood was to attend government institutions 5 days a week, 7 hours a day, 9 months a year, for 12 years? That most of that time should be spent sitting at a desk, with say one hour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-question-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-J8J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173527,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173521\/revisions\/173527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}