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How Did the Classroom Become a Machine for National Identity? - Building the Nation in the Nineteenth-Century Classroom | Sleepy Facts About History
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Before the nineteenth century, a child in rural France, Prussia, or Japan would likely have known their local village, dialect, and regional saints far better than any national borders or standardized tongue. The idea that every child should spend years in a state-directed classroom learning to belong to a nation would have seemed completely radical. This episode explores how that radical idea became a daily routine through the rise of mass compulsory schooling.
We look at how states used…
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