The Desirability of Compelling Children to Work

On the desirability of sending poor children to workhouses and schooling them:

There is considerable use in their being, somehow or other, constantly
employed at least twelve hours a day, whether they earn their living or not;
for by these means, we hope that the rising generation will be so habituated
to constant employment that it would at length prove agreeable and entertaining
to them.

William Temple, 1770 (quoted in EP Thompson, 'Time, Work-Discipline & Industrial Capitalism')