This is Shorpy Higginbotham, a “greaser” on the tipple at Bessie Mine, Alabama of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. It was taken in 1910.  That is 102 years ago. He said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carried two heavy pails of grease, and was often in danger of being run over by the coal cars.

 Eventually people came to believe that children should not work, but should be educated . The public school system that children attend today is largely unchanged from the school that Shorpy and these children would have attended in the 19th Century.

So it should come as no surprise that
according to The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development places the United States 18th among the 36 nations examined in terms of number of high school students graduating on time.

However, there are kids that don’t accept the status quo. They decide to take advantage of what is around them. To create something new. When Bill Gates was 20, he created Microsoft .

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook when he was 20.

Right now there are kids working on “the next big thing.”  They find Pokemon “nostalgic”. They remember being 10 -12 years old when Facebook came out. They talk about the differences between mobile device operating systems.

These are our kids. They’re “back to basics.” 

They see the world in terms of “Survival of the Fittest.”

They see a 19th Century model of education, and are changing it themselves ~ without your permission.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, LC-USZ62-84580

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