https://aeon.co/essays/how-prairie-philosophy-democratised-thought-in-19th-cent… Created Tue, 10/09/2024 - 20:00 Updated Tue, 10/09/2024 - 20:00 How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest - by Joseph M Keegin Read at Aeon