Interesting find....

Reading through "Dumbing Us Down" and found an interesting historical fact that was unknown to me...
“Our form of public schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 188o’s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.”

Wow, I never realized the militia was used to enforce compulsory school!