Being able to produce clothing, art, food, and maintain the household was of greater relative importance. And they were often high skill pursuits that required knowledge, dexterity, and people skills to master.

Modern feminism does not recognize the importance of these skills, and certainly doesn’t allow taking pride in women’s abilities as homemakers.

An excellent treatment of the subject. I find the local economic model for the education and preparation of children far superior and preferable (what Traditional mode isn’t?) than the Modern industrial battery farms we call schools, which spit out fodder for the rat race of economic boom and bust.

Obviously here you are looking at schooling directly preceding the last century. What about further back? Would you say the systems in place were not comparably different to a large extent? My opinion on the matter would be that ideally, we want the guild system or something similar to return. Rather than a corporate economy, a trade guild economy with areas of industry that contain their own educational support structure at the local and of course family level. I can’t help but feel such a system would be instrumental in re-asserting hierarchy as well. Once family traditions of trade practices are re-introduced, with trades being passed from generation to generation, there would be a huge reduction is ‘labor anarchy’, people flitting from one profession to the next with no set rhyme or reason. What else could emerge from this reduction but an ordered system of noble rank!… at least eventually.

Extend childhood or adolescence is actually a pretty bad idea:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200703/trashing-teens