School Daze

   The importance of education seems to be a universal value. Every society devotes resources into passing on knowledge to the next generation. The quality of that education, however, is greatly affected by the environment in which learning takes place. In our own country, we have had a wide disparity between our schools and this definitely gives some students an advantage. Here are some images depicting a range of classrooms.

Log Cabin Classroom

One Room Schoolhouse

Biology Lab 1899

Dressmaking Class

Botany Class 1906

Rural Black School

Fisk University

African-American Adult Education Class

1950s Classroom

The Slide Rules!

The Classroom Enters the Television Age

The Temple of Television

As a child during the Fifties, I well remember the entry of television in our family's life. Of course, in those days, the TV was usually a piece of fine furniture that replaced the upright wooden radio in the living room.

Ads from those days show families crowded around the tiny screens, mesmerized by the flickering images being brought directly into their homes.