"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Our Sepia Saturday this week involves teaching, and learning from Alan's theme photo below.
In honor of that beloved, sweet blessing of knowledge, (and all the things we've learned within us) and an underlining theme for Mother's Day that many of us are celebrating this weekend, I offer this.
1905 Learning to walk.
Surprisingly enough this teaching device is still used today, of course in many other designs.
1955
After learning to walk, comes the real fun stuff. Baby ballerinas.
Dance like nobody is watching.
October 1942
Mothers and grandmothers made sure to teach their little girls the fundamentals of womanhood, like sewing. In those days sewing wasn't just a hobby, it was often a necessity.
Also 1942
Learning how to drive nails in a country school. Wilmington, Delaware, at Tower Hill School.
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
1899 Washington D.C. students learn dance techniques at school.
Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Delaware, Country School children from to age 3 to 18 years old also learning to dance.
Learning wasn't always just games and dancing, sometimes it was tedious work like flower making with their mother. I wonder how many mothers today teach their children, especially boys, flower making?
1915 Photographer, Lewis Wickes Hines.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
1899
How we made a compass. The handwriting on the blackboard is (as well as the blackboard) not so common these days. Even the compass is being replaced.
Seriously, The Boy Scouts?
The photo absolutely reads, Boy Scouts learning to shoot.
Loading rocks in their wagon. Is it playtime?
On To the big wagons!
1942 Detroit, Driver's training course.
It sure appears they're having a blast in Chemistry 101.
WE TEACH
WE LEARN
Learning is simple
if you try.
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