07/01/2015
We at Essen Publishing www.essenpublishing.co.nz have been very happy with the response of visitors to our website to items posted on our News page. Chief among these postings have been the reminiscences about schools, teachers and education in general during the 1940s and 50s. There is all the difference in the world between school life sixty or seventy years ago and that of today.
We would like to invite our visitors to share their own experiences of schools. We are looking for humour, examples of generosity and magnanimity, contrast between bygone times and today, and indeed any anecdote that shines the spotlight on how education has changed over the years. Your piece must be authentic but nothing too vitriolic, please!
It doesn’t matter whether you’re eighty years old and telling us about classroom routines in the 1930s or twenty years old and telling us about the good things your teachers led you into. If you think your anecdote will stir someone else’s memories or cast a light on aspects of education that may now be past, send it to us and we will make it available to all on our website.
We will need your name which we will publish or else leave you anonymous, whichever you wish. There might be some editing necessary (not that we have the corner on grammar, spelling and sentence structure!).
Please email your contributions to [email protected] If we use your piece we will email you the url link.
David
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