In a message dated 10/22/98 3:10:14 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
<< Many (if not most) of the structures we
endeavor to preserve predate the public education system we all seem to think
of as "formal" (normal?).>>
It seems to me that public education has been with us a good deal longer than
most of our buildings. In fact, in many communities the oldest existing
building is the public school. Wasn't public education established in the
very earliest New England colonies?