Posted by Bill(Wis) on December 06, 2008 at 04:48:23 from (71.249.198.251):
In Reply to: school back then posted by n8terry on December 05, 2008 at 18:16:32:
We were down to 11 kids in a one room school at one point and each grade had at least one pupil in it so the teacher still had to teach all 8 grades. The neighbor's hired man built fires. We'd put our ink bottles and pens (before ball point pens were invented) back in the corner around the stove each evening so they wouldn't freeze overnight. When I add it all up, most of us did quite well. Many military officers, pilots, veterinarians, nurses, teachers, one MD. My brother graduated from West Point and acquired three master's degrees after that. Retired from the Army as a Colonel. 2 silver stars, bronze with a V, air medals out the gazoo, etc. It was not looked on as a very good education for some reason. The only thing I didn't like about it was there just weren't enough books in our small library and we had to run into town a lot to get the books we needed.
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