No, no it isn't. Look around the world. Ignorance is the default state of being and continues to be the state of being in a lot of places.
>> An education is literally available everywhere,
You and I have different definitions of education.
>> and kids especially seem to get excited about the process.
Some do, some do not.
>> arents would have to explicitly set up an environment to prevent their kids from receiving an education of some kind, which, I agree, would be troubling. How realistic is that kind of environment though?
Very. Watch your cartoons and shut up.
>> Aside from that, it really is just a question of how.
It's really not, it's a question of giving access to learning to kids whose parents can't afford to educate them or don't care. There are a lot of these folks. In the days before mandatory education kids were put to work to support the family, social mobility was close to zero and... well it was Victorian. Compulsory education has been a huge step forward.
That would be one way to teach them not to seek education.
From the sounds of it you probably need some sort of therapy. Did you talk to your parents about it at the time? It's their choice how to educate you.
Sure, why not? It's the end of history, after all.
And you didn't have to be there, your parents had a choice like everyone else's.
As for "deliberate"? Deliberate's got nothing to do with it. See also "The Yellow Wallpaper".
It is an attempt to pass off your reaction as not legitimate, yes, because it's not. I'll say it again - you didn't have to be there, nobody was forcing you to be in that classroom, that was your parents choice. The only choice they didn't have was not to educate you at all.
--edit-- Further on the scars thing - in your first post in this thread you explicitly talk of emotional abuse and deliberate traumatisation during your schooling, I'm not sure why you would think my suggestion you talk to someone about this is so offensive?