An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Give every child from 5 to 9 a free day school run by the government. Boys and girls, rich and poor, sit together in the same plain clothes. They learn reading, sums and science, and play outdoors between lessons.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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