School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days,
Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick…
Welcome to a sort of satanic Norman Rockwell world. The Pedagogic Museum, with exhibits showing what school used to be like.
And what a different time it was, education-wise. Students rarely carried high-caliber revolvers to class, beating up teachers was against the rules for grade-schoolers, and visible tattoos had to be smaller than a dinner plate.
The museum tells of traditions such as gags and donkey ears. Children were made to hold water in their mouths until their cheeks hurt, hold bricks in outstretched arms, or kneel on grains of corn. Want your kids to see the exhibits? Well, the museum is in Uruguay, but that’s not all that much further than Disney World.
Figures showing punishment meted out on schoolchildren are displayed at the pedagogic museum in Montevideo May 31, 2007. Physical and humiliating punishments were used by teachers in Uruguay during the 19th century, until it was banned later in the century, according to museum literature. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
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Ah, the good old days.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksSome of the students who hated getting this treatment for free in their youth are willingly paying huge dollars to get it in their old age and decadance. It makes me wonder.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI remember giant wooden paddles with holes in them. O.O
- Posted by LadyWeaselActually Shawn those same people who are paying cash for it now are the ones who are banning if from schools. Funny huh?
- Posted by chemaza‘…In order to enter and exit the Pedagogic museum, potential visitors must climb uphill both ways with paper bags for shoes, in negative 30 degree (Fahrenheit) temperatures and six feet of snow.’
- Posted by MellySchool days, school days
Dear old golden rule days,
Readin and ritin and rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
Odd people can’t figure out that the lack of this is what is behind the current horrific state of affairs in the world…
- Posted by Faye RobertsAh, yes: the good old days when 90% of kids dropped out before Grade 12, most people worked themselves into an early grave just to put a pittance on the table, women were automatically paid less for doing the same job because they were considered less than human, and if you weren’t exactly like everyone else - skin colour, age, sexuality, etc. - you could be raped to death or lynched and nobody would do a thing about it. Heck, they’d cheer. After all, you brought it upon yourself by not conforming like a sheep, right?
The world is better now than it ever has been.
- Posted by Charlene