I mean the years before Nicolae Ceausescu.How was schooling back then?Was it more different than nowadays?When you were entering a highschool or college you were getting out with something usefull and applicable?How many study hours were there in that time?Were there manuals,exercises books,notebooks for all scholars?How severe were the teachers?Was there correctness in that time?I mean when you shared something to someone everything was equal to superiors and inferiors. We could put in our disscusion world war 2. I had an uncle in my country and he had 2 jobs electrician and accountant.He fought in the first and the second war.By 1945 he abandoned his first lieutenant function in the army and he choosed these 2 jobs.I dont know how he got promoted from the rank soldier to first lieutenant.Maybe he was a cultivated man(he had an entire library at his service so i guess he was a geek). Why can't we learn nowadays lots of information like back then?
How about introducing yourself, explaining why you are asking, clarifying your actual questions and perhaps learning some patience. Before 89? That'd be mostly an off-topic question on a forum like this which deals with WW2 era. Before Ceausescu? I'd guess most of our members have never lived in Romania - if that's your region of interest. 30s and 40s? You might get an answer from our veterans or some of our older members if you asked nicely.
Some links about education in England http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chapter04.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/25751787 http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/overview/educationact1944/ http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/education-and-sociology/history-of-english-education/ . That is what's called a leading question, i.e. you seem to have made up your mind and want to hear something in response to prove it. Ask a child - then or now - if they would rather be at school or at home playing and the answer would mostly be the same. But, ask them what they'd like to be when they grow up and most would probably have some idea of a goal they'd have to achieve via their education. In my opinion the 'educational system' has never been about making people love to learn. That's mostly accidental, thanks to an enthusiastic teacher, to encouragement from parents, or to the individual's own interests. "And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school." (Shakespeare, 1599) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUuJ4kQaOZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOq3U1MH4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byFwYZmLqTc
My Grandfather told me his mum and dad were working at 14 and his mum didnt really attend school after the age of 11 he said they were`nt playing they were working at home and his mum didnt have any shoes to go to school in.They never complained because everyone was the same no one had any clothes or shoes and Sunday best (?) was put in the pawn shop every Monday along with their Dad`s best suit (If he had one) ! I think they would have liked to go to school but it just wasn`t possible I used to laugh when he got on about jam jars to get in the cinema etc ..but not anymore ...and these people fought a World War...Proud of them Kyle
Polling day 1935 Mums not waiting at the school gates for their children but seeing them off for evacuation 1939;- London kids 1935 Kyle
identical thread on ww2f http://www.ww2f.com/topic/58254-previous-schoolhighschoolcollege-years-before-89/