There I was, running an errand, Throughline on NPR when they started talking about creating the first department of education in the 1860s.
The title of the episode is The First Department of Education and it first ran on June 12, 2025.
The entire episode boils down to how educating people will decrease societal ills. One of the first points that I heard was education of all costs less than a jail.
Of course people who craved control were against it.
Just like today.
Quality episode, definitely worth your forty eight minute listen.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 