the style of teaching in which students sit "in rows opposite a teacher, who follows a standard curriculum" is a "Sumerian invention" (307)
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> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
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> created May 11, 2025 at 7:12:15 PM
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