Very, very old would make me ancient, I suppose.

My intent was to show that educational reform, which many people are calling for, only comes when there is reform in the way we work. Public schooling came about as the industrial era displaced our agrarian way of life. Later, as smaller companies gave way to larger corporations (chain supermarkets in small towns is a good example) so to the local school and one-room schoolhouse gave way to collector schools and the daily shipping of children on buses. Educational reform will not happen until our dominant ways of work and generating wealth change.