So when was the time you went to school for the first time Duke of Earl.
Some of us old timers remember when Education was much different then today's Unionised protection for the incompetent and those that are in it for just for the pay or benefits.
There was no such thing as teachers for the disabled mentally or physically. All were treated the same, given the same classes and expected to learn a subject even if the child was blind or deaf. No special treatment for kids whose parents could not afford to buy them glasses or hearing aids.
Corporal punishment was rampart, a ruler on the knuckles or a paddle to the behind for the boys that upset a teacher, never saw a girl under go that kind of education.
Teachers back then were to teach a subject not to act as social workers or police, they were expected to maintain discipline in the classroom and on the playground. They had no problem breaking up a fight or sending a kid home with a note to their parents.
Different world Duke, today kids have the advantage of social services, special trained teachers for their needs. Way different world.
I as a freshman walked into a class sat down and my pencil rolled off the desk onto the floor. I retrieved it to find the male teacher standing over me yelling at me and sent to the principals office for disrupting his class. 2 day suspension.
Mom went to the school and came home to tell me the Teacher had personal problem and the pencil rolling was his last straw. So I was punished for his problems back then, today were that to happen to my child I would raise holy Hell.
Then there was a 60 year old English teacher that was so stressed out she would break into tears over most anything. We nasty little kids made a game of who would cause her to cry first. It was more important she reach retirement age then that we learned anything in her class.
We had some wonderful teachers that opened our minds and made class fun and exciting to learn in. We never realised we were learning in fact, just that those teachers made us interested in the subject and want to know more.
Generation to generation teaching changes, back in the late 1950's a child with Polio in a wheel chair could not go to a small or big town school with stairs, some schools had phone hook ups so the kids at home could listen in on their classes and learn at home.They were free to ask questions over a class room speaker but it did become a distraction the teacher did not welcome.
I come from the era that had no calculators, all math was learned by memorisation, Dates of history of importance had to be memorised, few classmates had a TV, all news was by radio or local news paper. Parents could not help with homework as they had been educated 30+ years before.
It was the times back then, but somehow those in my generation went to the Moon and back using a slide rule.
Built the hand held calculators, the PC and went on in the arts and sciences.
Truly remarkable what my generation has done, all with a start out education in way back then schools that were all so different from today's. Teachers salary's were at $1500 a YEAR, yet we students learned and thrived.
By the time I went to school, everyone was special and corporal punishment was replaced with terrorizing us about either the bomb or the coming New Ice Age or razor blades in the Halloween candy.
Sometimes we discussed why "Hell" wasn't on the road maps of the day.
And that's about where I stopped reading.
And really, isn't everything after Aristotle crap education?
