Studying
August 17, 2010
Miss Tomlin's School, Washington, D.C., 1926
— Comments —
Youngfogey writes:
I looked at the picture you posted of the schoolchildren in 1926. It made me very sad to know that those children were learning nothing and that they went through life in crippling ignorance. Want to know how I know this?
Look at the picture. There’s not a computer anywhere. Everyone knows you have to have computers to teach children adequately.
Laura writes:
It’s heartbreaking to think of those tender minds locked in darkness, without Facebook and Wikipedia. I was also struck by the bare simplicity of the walls. How could they concentrate? There is not a single reminder of pending environmental disaster anywhere in that room. There’s no pink or green construction paper on the walls. Everyone knows children must have pictures made with pink and green construction paper on the walls and they must see their own amateurish and ridiculous paintings pasted everywhere or they lose self-esteem.
Youngfogey writes:
Just think how much more primitive their parents’ education must have been. It’s amazing there were any children to educate in 1926 seeing as how their parents didn’t have the benefit of comprehensive sex education.
Laura writes:
Good point. We have much to be thankful for today. Do you see how uncomfortable these children look? No slovenly T-shirts or sweatpants to facilitate learning.
Michael S. writes:
Open books on uncluttered desks being read by uncluttered minds in an uncluttered space. No cellphones. The horror.
Laura writes:
The tidyness of the place suggests repression and fascism. Fascist Miss Tomlin!
Thomas F. Bertonneau writes:
Sometimes even the fairly crass satirists at The Onion get it right.
Laura writes:
That is hysterical.
