Well, this proves there was no education for kids back in 1917. There’s no illustration of how to put on condoms nor illicit sex. No common core instruction.
This story also reminds me of something I encountered in a tiny, tiny Louisiana town a couple of decades back. There were two old, small buildings, built side-by-side, and were pretty much the only two non-residential buildings in that tiny-spot-in-the-road town. One had been a grocery store way back, and the other was the ‘city hall.’
The brick ‘city hall’ was torn down, and it revealed on the side of the long-closed grocery building was a great, painted “Dr. Pepper” advertisement, which dated probably to the late-1930s (based on my knowledge of its look and style) and had apparently been hidden ever since the other building was built up against its wall. Beautifully preserved. This town was nearly 200 miles from where I lived, but when I got home, I wrote to the town, imploring them to try to preserve the advertisement. Never got any response. Alas, next time I drove by, six months later, it had totally been painted over.
It's sexist, homophobic, and promotes religion...and even has non-common core methods of learning multiplication.
...chalkboard ping....
“Oh, Miss Crabtree, there’s something heavy on my heart.”
decided to show an Adventures in Odyssey video (yes video) in Kid’s Church. . . “Escape from the Forbidden Matrix”. . .a 2001 video which shows the dangers of getting hooked on video games which perpetuates wasted time. . . . that video was a self fulfilling prophecy. . .roll the calendar forward 14 years and what do we have now. It is very sad. The discussion afterwards was mind boggling. I am truly repentant for my wasted years but this has become an epidemic that is downright unhealthy mentally, physically and spiritually. Jacks and pick-up sticks anyone?
I tutor and the students can’t print, write, spell, memorize math facts, and read.
What? no drawings of teachers teaching kids how to put a condom on a banana? no descriptions of homosexual acts? no asking kids if their parents have guns?
If those were in Mrs. Dendy’s classroom there would still be 100 y/o students in there too. No one left her class till the boards were cleaned, hell or high water.
That is so cool! Thank you for posting this.
Some of the math looks like Common Core, but I doubt that was the case 100 years ago...more likely they were given an EXCELLENT EDUCATION, one without cell phones or calculators.
After all, these were the kids that won World War 2 for us when they were in the prime of their lives.
I know if you told the teacher ‘F You’, the teacher would hit you, then your parents would hit you. Nowadays, the teacher would either have sex with the students or the students will HIT the students because the parents don’t care today.
How does that multiplication circle work? Any ideas?
I saw this on msn on my computer.
It was wonderful.
When they found this one, I bet it was like the scene in the original Planet of the Apes, when Taylor (Heston) found the talking human doll in the cave, and the science minister knew it's existence had to be suppressed and sealed the cave.
Chinese classroom
http://tinyurl.com/qj9lwh2
The Chinese had to know their multiplication tables just to locate their desk!
interesting
Don’t let the kids see them. They might actually learn something.
I remember the multiplication wheel it was a drill with the teacher using a pointer and kids shouting out answers
Beautiful slate chalkboards were covered with green board and now covered with white board.
I was schooled in a classroom of slate and oak and wood desks. there were inkwells on the desks but unused . The windows were big and bright and the classrooms immaculate
the nuns who taught us, in retrospect, had nothing. I remember how carefully they saved string, and straight pins. Each when given special construction paper for the bulletin boards worked hard to make beautiful and creative and inspiring art.