Strikes me that a lot of elements of elementary school

the yearly rhythm – “it’s fall so we’re tracing our hand out as turkeys”, the random petty holidays – “everyone is wearing yellow tomorrow!” and community pageantry – “and now, everyone goes to the auditorium to watch the fifth grade perform The Wizard of Oz”, even the subjects – “HERE’S what sound a sheep makes, THIS kinda cloud means it’s gonna rain, LOOK at this egg growing into a chicken”

are really some kinda ontology-recapitulates-phylogeny reenactment of village agrarianism