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Town Halls, Schools and most infrastructure was built from the minds of concerned citizens and off the backs of people who could see a future grander than what they knew of the past.
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This is a very idealistic portrayal of the development of America. The education system in America is the result of government, not the result of some shared communal interest - building a school isn't a barn raising, or at least hasn't been equivalent to a barn raising in about a hundred years.
The infrastructure of the US is the result of government and big business, not of a communal commitment. Communities did not build railroads, large corporations with government subsidies built them.
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The fifties turned the world around and politics took the greatest dive there was, when the concept of communal was mixed with communism to that of Russia. This is where my point to Afallucco enters the divide and discipline is not the answer but constructing a work ethic within all children is. You can beat a child senseless for the purpose of discipline but it does not get them working correctly. A bad scenario but the message is ledgable.
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You're right about beating children and discipline, but I do not think any one suggested lashings were the solution to discipline issues. Work ethic is a matter of discipline - personal discipline, the most important sort of discipline a student, or anyone for that matter, can have.