You can click to enlarge the image. Here are more French images from 1910 postcards, here are the German postcards, and for the pointer to the excellent links I thank Jules Sigall.
A 1910 French prediction for education in the year 2000
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Follow the link to the Ladies Home Journal article of 1900 at the same site. A lot of surprisingly accurate stuff.
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/17/what-may-happen-in-the-next-hundred-years-ladies-home-journa.html
Everything to the left of the boy turning the crank on the book machine is identical to a foreign language classroom of mine growing up… this company appears to sell the stuff today – http://www.educationalmediallc.com/
Very good article, I like it, thank you
Monkeys with typewriters.
What I don’t get is why is that pupil taking care of the machine? Does this mean that the work of mental enlightenment will be done from a student to another, because teachers are overwhelmed by the technology? Because if the latter supposition is correct, then I can sign up for online nursing masters degrees starting now.
I had the good fortune of seeing one of your neighbors, my cousin the other weekend at a family wedding.
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