This makes sense: –“The essay implies that females exploit the males, and ends

This makes sense:
–“The essay implies that females exploit the males, and ends with “let’s change laws” to inhibit such exploitation”–
The second doesn’t (yet)
The origin of education is the catholic church’s foundation of the monastic schools, church schools, and academies.
This spread to the church’s town schools where boys 7-14 were taught basics and eventually arithmetic.
Education for the poor was mandated by the Church in 1179 decreeing that every cathedral must assign a master to teach boys too poor to pay the regular fee.
With few exceptions, priests and brothers taught locally, and their salaries were frequently subsidized by towns. Private, independent schools reappeared in medieval Europe during this time, but they, too, were religious in nature and mission
Johannes Herbart developed a system of pedagogy widely used in German-speaking areas. Mass compulsory schooling started in Prussia c1800 to “produce more soldiers and more obedient citizens”
In the late 19th century, most of West, Central, and parts of East Europe began to provide elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, partly because politicians believed that education was needed for orderly political behavior.
What I suspect you are imagining is the german development of kindergarten in the lat 19th century because the industrial revolution had made possible women working outside the home.
Education’s always been a male thing.
It’s not a wonder that woman are destroying it.

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