Anne Richardson explains what life was like as a child at infant school, junior school, and gramma school in England in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes notes for

From the old days of knuckle-cracking nuns to today's more liberal teaching methods, Catholic schools have evolved into the best option even for non-Catholic pa

A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.

"The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is John Corcoran's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to read or write and went on to