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I mean historically. For once, I’m not trying to be contentious, just to list the reasons we have chosen to make this enormous social investment.

• The British Public Schools created a steady trickle of young men who had the skills and attitude to run the empire.
• The apprenticeship system has produced artisans since the Middle Ages.
• The 1870 education act put children into schools mainly as a solution to the scandal of child labour in factories.

What have I missed?