My education and my Grandparent's education have been extremely different. My education has seemed to evolve around everything electronic; most of it has came from books and computers. My Grandpa said most of his education came from work. Grandpa graduated from high school in 1957. My Grandma did not graduate, but she received her G.E.D. in 1982.
Grandpa said there wasn't much too his high school education. He said there wasn't anything electronic in the school at that time, calculators or computers. Unlike now, the lockers in his school didn't have locks on them. He said that most of his learning came from reading in books. Occasionally the school would get a guest speaker, although this didn't happen often.
During my education, teachers have had many more resources available to them than they did during my Grandpa's time. Calculators, computers, and TV are everyday tools used for teaching. Teachers taught us how to use a calculator at a very early age. Since the fifth......
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