Gadol > We have seen on multiple occasions, parents showing up with their kinderlach for job interviews at our firm.
Selection bias maybe? Those free range kids just don’t get to the job interview?
Rashi suggests time to teach your kids from between 16 and 24, about the age of your applicant.
You may be idealizing industrial age lifestyle. Historically, kids were raised at home and worked at fields and workshops. A select few got educated, mostly by tutors. Society figured out that it is possible to educate the masses by making them sit in same-age groups of forty and repeat ABC after one teacher.