i know but they still had machine guns @Lucienne d'Anwyl

for ideological reasons

and did not actually serve much purpose in the immediate

yeah literacy was pushed by Protestants and communists

not just

"Look at all these soulless ideologues wanting people to know how to read!!!"

but also those, yes

stop being gay, kitten

I'm just describing facts

not judging them

Well yes I mean of course

Discord is the best place to gather facts about history

bestest

top tier

wanna see my nudes?

And learn how apparently people were forced to learn to read in order to...uhh...ideology and shit

I mean they kinda were

the idea was to enlighten society

from the top down

it was an ideological endeavor

Are we heading into some anti-enlightenment territory now?

which had little to do with practical, down to earth helping the poor

reading, as I said, was not *that* useful to many

yet it was thought to them instead of other things

because some bourgeois decided it was important

Dude you do realize that the primary reason peadents were not hired in factories and the likes was because they were considered too stupid, right?

in his worldview

Learning how to read was essential in order to acquire knowledge

you don need much bookish knowledge to work in a Ford T factory

It's okay to have ideological positions yano

it is

Especially at a time where books represented the gateway to financial success for the average middle class individual

I'm talking abotu the poor

not the middle class

Haha

The westerner needs to have da science behind him

The poor were transformed into middle class citizens by mass industrialization

I think you're reading WAY more then you should into my statements...

Which also brought higher literacy rates

So he will turn the cat tailwise if he has to

no