School was different back in the 1960s and ’70s. Boomers learned skills that would baffle most kids today and spent countless hours memorizing facts and mastering techniques that technology has since rendered obsolete. From carefully crafting business letters with perfect margins to wrestling with temperamental home economics sewing machines, school days were filled with lessons that have largely disappeared from modern classrooms. Let’s take a nostalgic trip back through 20 school lessons that defined a generation’s educational experience.
#1: Writing in Cursive
Perfectly slanted letters taunted Boomers from above the chalkboard as they gripped their pencils with determination. Cursive writing wasn’t just penmanship. It was an art form that demanded hours of practice loops and endless repetition. Teachers insisted kids would use cursive for the rest of their lives, and Heaven help anyone whose capital Q didn’t have the proper flourish! Who knew cursive would give way to typing most communications on tiny phone screens?
