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Originally Posted by timwilky
woe be tied any poor sod who forget their pen (Not biro) and the ink well was filled and you were issued a scratchy nib and marked down for the quality of your hand writing.
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I'm not too young to remember learning to write with a fountain pen.
I learnt the art of Calligraphy when young.
These days they still write in pencil at Junior school, but alas proper tools are no more. They do try teaching kids joined up, but concentrate too much on it, rather than just getting them to write correctly.
Homework is issued at the end of each week. I am all for doing the maths, spellings and the like, what I don't like is getting random bits of 'research homework' that entails using a computer...all good if you have one.
In my day, homework was based on what you had learnt, and recall, so the teacher knew you'd been listening, not going onto googlefoo and finding out what sacred things are in a Synagogue, or finding out names famous native American Indians.
Can you imagine if celebs like Jonny Depp did this more often? It would certainly make kids perhaps want to learn.
Jet Li or Beckham doing a demonstration PE lesson, Jamie Oliver doing Home Economics(or whatever they call cooking lessons these days) or Bill Bailey getting kids into proper music via the art of comedy.
IF only!