One of the interesting items in the museum was this slate. Students were required to use slates until they reached the fourth grade. Paper was is very short supply as Paper Scribblers were brought in from Minnesota and due to the length of time it took for them to arrive only the older students were allowed to use them.
Tomorrow I will take a look at a 1912 classroom
Seems quite reasonable and practical. It's much easier to erase a slate than a piece of paper when you're 5 years old and learning to write. Good shot!
So nostalgic. With all of our "advances" today, we still can't beat the beautiful, homespun quality to, and essence of, sturdy items of necessity and practicality that stand the test of time. Smart teachers. :o Still in use today in a high-school Spanish class I subbed for in Cedar Rapids, although they were wet boards this time. :o
Teachers still use something similar for practice computation and problem solving. We have individual whiteboards which the kids use with markers. If you have a good idea, you stick with it!
@eyesmile In this case I think progress has made it better. I think a person would have had to have a real good memory to remember what they had written down
Lovely pic. of the past