Amish Work Ethic

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This paper discusses how the Amish people have a very strong work ethic and suggests that modern-day Americans may have a lot to learn from their practices. It also discusses the issue of child labor and whether the employment of Amish teenagers in the family fields and factories could be considered child labor.

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"In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the Amish community exempt from national standards of education, allowing Amish students to leave school after the eighth grade. The Amish people, a religious group who strive to maintain a traditional lifestyle in an increasingly technological world, foster in their youths a strong work ethic. "Learning by doing" is the motto of the Amish in regards to their disregard for formal education, which they view as being irrelevant to the simplicity of their lives. Recently, the Amish community has suffered a small wave of attacks by the federal government over the employment of teens in Amish sawmills. Fines levied against Amish sawmill owners, however, amounts to a thinly veiled accusation that the community practice unethical child labor."

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