[slumberlust]

What makes you choose the 19th century for public education creation? It was my understanding the Puritans and thusly Yankees that spread through NE and the north Midwest were staunch proponents of schoolhouses and publicly funded education dating back to the to the early 17th century.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Publicly funded non-secular education didn't take off globally until the 1830s when everyone started copying Prussia.