Back to School! -Postcard Friendship Friday #468

Things have changed so much since the days of one room school houses.  My Grandfather, Mom, Uncles, my siblings and I, as well as my youngest daughter all attended the same school.  In fact, when I was there, we had choir in the old schoolhouse where my Mom went to school.  There were only five or six in her class.  There were over 30 in mine.  Since that time, the old school was torn down and new schools built.  There's a supermarket where I once played as a child.

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Happy Dunce Day! -Postcard Friendship Friday #193

Though the origin of Dunce Day is illusive, it seems to recognize Scotus of Duns, a scholar who lived in Scotland during the dark ages.  He died November 8th, 1308, hence the fixed date for this holiday. 

Duns has the dubious honor of being the creator of dunce caps.  This medieval scholar was convinced cone shaped hats increased a student's learning potential.  He believed wisdom and knowledge, floating invisibly in the air, would enter the tip of the hat to flow downward onto the head of the wearer, making that person smarter.

Of course, becoming more intelligent from wearing a pointy hat is impossible, so the perception of the cap as a way to acquire wisdom, eventually came to mean that the person wearing it was actually--well, a dunce!

In times past, teachers would make a miss-behaving student sit at the front of the classroom room wearing a dunce cap.  Wearing such a hat became a punishment.  Dunce caps became a tool to motivate students to work harder in order to be rid of the hat.  Thank goodness, teachers don't make children wear dunce caps any longer. 

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School Days - Postcard Friendship Friday #27

Most schools in the United States begin next week, right after Labor Day!  I couldn't find any fun postcards about Labor Day--so I thought I would concentrate on the beginning of school.  This is a Tuck's postcard from 1910!  Tuck's postcards are wonderful.  This one made me smile. 

My Grandfather attended school in a tiny one-room school house.  My Mother and her brothers studied in that same small classroom.  By the time I came along, the town had built an elementary school for all eight grades.  In seventh and eighth grade our choir class was held in the small spot where Grandpa and Mom  attended school.  Later, my own children attended there--my eldest daughter's fourth grade class was in my first grade classroom.
 
Today the school, where I once learned my sums, was torn down and the one room school house is long gone.  An Albertson's grocery store sits where the shouts of children once rang out during recess.  However, the "woods" where we played stands nearly unchanged--the tall fir trees still shade the parking lot.

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