Figure 1.-- I recently saw this photograph in the newspaper showing a boy with a clipboard on a school trip. Unfortunately I don't have any photographs from our school trips. It is interesting though that modern school kids still have worksheets and clipboards. The other point is that whereas the man describing the plant to the boy is wearing a sweatshirt - as many schools have these days. The boy is wearing a jumper and tie under his coat. I think that a blue jumper is more common now for boys than it used to be.

I recently saw a photograph in the newspaper showing a boy with a clipboard on a school trip. It remindfed me of my school trips--the ones I actually went on. Unfortunately I don't have any photographs from our school trips. It is interesting though that modern school kids still have worksheets and clipboards. When we went on school trips to museums we were often given worksheets to fill out as aleaning experience. They were attached to clipboards we were issued to make it easy to write as we moved about the museum or other institution we were visiting. That helped to keep us busy and to keep our mind on the subject at hand. Some of us were genuinely interested. Others were inclined to get up to mischief unless kept focused. Then we would continue working back at school on what we had discovered.

Created: 12:08 AM 5/1/2006
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