Who remembers having to do book reports in elementary school?
Does anyone remember having to do book reports in elementary school?
We could choose a topic, from among many.......then had to go to the library for our research books......read up on the topic......write a "rough draft", perfect the rough draft, write it out in CURSIVE and then stand up in front of the class and read it or sometimes memorize it, if it was shorter....like poetry.
We went "step by step" through the process.......and lugged all kinds of books home, except for the library books which we could not check out.
I guess it taught us not only research but to be organized. I liked it all, except for the part of reading it in front of the class.
My mom would always tell me how she LOVED going to the library from age 7 on........it became her "escape" and she developed a love of books; taking us to the library from a young age........same habit I followed with our own children.........and they do with theirs..........
My mom would bring the books home and read by the "GAS LIGHT" OUTDOORS........she even had an "outhouse".......those were the days.
To her, books opened an entire world which she could never hope to experience otherwise, being the child of a widowed immigrant woman.
I know there are kids today getting a good education as they WANT it, however, I'm sure there are those more drawn to the computer games and such..........which we, as parents, did not have to contend with.
My husband and I always say that if the terrorists want to really strike a chord of fear and total overwhelming loss.........just zap our power grids which would kill our computers, etc........and we'd all be disconnected.
Supermarkets would not be able to check out the customers as their cash registers wouldn't work..........and none of them can "add" like some of the oldtimers we knew who would "add it up" right on the brown bag..or the ladies in the department stores who would actually write up a receipt and add it up in front of you............no computer, no adding machine.
They probably did not go past 8th grade.....but could do the simple basic tasks..........which a lot of folks today definitely would need their "machines" to accomplish.
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