Slate And Chalk

There were special slate pencils that we used to write. Yes. It was slate and slate pencil that we used to start our school life. The teachers used chalk to write on the blackboard.

I enjoyed school and I also liked writing with, first a straight pen and then a fountain pen.

I used slate pencils. We started with slate and pencil. Then on to lead pencils and finally the ink pens. Now I use my index fingers only.

I loved school the first 8 years, then I went to public school and it was awful. I would love one of those desks!!

I loved my toy chalkboard when I was a kid. Perhaps that's why I loved school so much and was a straight A student. Lol! I did attend an elementary school with those battered wooden desks. They also had a hole for an inkwell which we never used.

@jaboUK Using the chalk would have been fun! Saves so much paper then! School was....ok. I got bullied a bit so that wasn't fun. I enjoyed grade 8 and 9 the most cause my best friend was there. I was very lost when she wasn't there. Sometimes I do miss it. But other times I'm glad it's over.

No, I was never much of a school fan. I do have a thirst for knowledge, but I prefer learning on my own.

That is so interesting. I started with pencil.

I did like most of my classes when I was in school. I quit when I was 16 and helped raise 6 younger brothers and sisters. I did go and get my GED when I was in my 40's.

I never enjoyed school, mostly because of the other kids.

As @allknowing has said we used slate and slate pencils.The teachers used chalk to write on the black board.I think I had posted a discussion about slate and slate pencil in March 2016.

You have fond memories in light of Mr Hitler trying to make things difficult. I grew up on a farm. There was a little village about a mile away that had a one-room schoolhouse. My Dad and his brother and sisters attended that school. My brother who is a year older then I am started grade 1 there. And when you were going to enter grade 1 the following year, you were taken (dressed in your Sunday best) to the special days at school-the last day before Christmas, before Easter and the last day of school before summer. I remember my Mom putting my green velvet dress on me, doing my hair, putting a pretty clip in it and my Dad taking me to the school for the afternoon before Christmas break-the teacher played the piano. The school closed that summer and I had to take the bus 10 miles into town, to the big school in town. My parents were worried because I started grade 1 and the other kids started in kindergarten, but I did fine, in fact my first grade teacher took a shining to me and I was kind of the teacher's pet. That may have made my educational years there easier!

Oh yes! I enjoyed school very much. I had very good friends and only reason I didn't like going to school was when I was in Grade 9 because I had to travel an hour in school bus to reach the damn school. This meant that I had to wake up at an ungodly hour to get ready.

At preschool we wrote on slate and pencil. And we had that for a couple of years at school too...like the one in the picture. Then there were pencils and later on from class six it was pens but not ball pens. I did love school , though my school friends are all scattered we have a very close bond and time slides back whenever we meet.

Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed school immensely that I stayed in school way longer than usual!

Slate and chalk - and a small little duster - I remember that well. I dont think the children do that anymore? My daughters classroom which was built in the 1960's have desks with inkwell holes, nothing is replaces unless its broken in many of the smaller town schools - she has an overhead projector with a DUCK neck and a Green chalk board (that is more modern than the black one)

We used pencils until 4th grade and then if we had good penmanship we were able to use pen (fountain pen but they came with cartridges so no ink wells). I wasn't particularly fond of school but I got decent grades.

We never had slates but we did have pens and nibs. Were they slates or pieces of blackboard? The slate I had at home had special slate pencils which sometimes made an awful squeak. I guess we could have used chalk on them. I don't really remember.

we had slates and chalk to show our answers to our teacher in Math, and we also had pencils, ballpoint pens, and sheets of paper to write on as well

I like the idea of slates and chalk much better than pens and paper. Being able to reuse them and save paper is a great idea. :-)