3. All had Joint families.
Punishments at the school were harsh.
Team work was preferred by the students.
Good atmosphere was maintained amongst the
students.
Languages were given more importance.
Grand Parent’s school syllabus was different from
the syllabus in the schools of today.
Some schools were gender biased.
The relationship between the teacher and student
was professional.
4. 6 to 8 subjects were taught in a day.
Punishments during the parent’s time were harsh.
All schools organized extra-curricular activities.
The mode of traveling to school was either public
transport or bike.
Schools were mostly co-educational.
All parents liked to go to school but some thought
it was boring as the focus of the schools was
mainly academics.
Meetings between parents and teachers
were held regularly.
5. Grand Parents went to a school where they could
learn one job. The schools weren’t separated but
girls didn’t go to a school where they learned how
to fix cars and boys didn’t go to schools where
they learned how to cook.
Religion was a compulsory subject during the
grand parents time.
6.
7. Several punishments like write 10 or more pages
from a book, stay after school to study, stand
outside the class etc. were common.
No extra-curricular activities were organized in the
school.
Almost all the grand parents had joint families.
The school curriculum included theory and practice
only.
The quality of teaching was very good.
Teachers were respected by students and parents.
8. Some had religious subject as compulsory.
No extra help was provided by the schools for the
students suffering from problems like dyslexia.
There was no coaching or help for students with
problems.
9. Schools were vocational. Some parents of
Oudehoven school went to a technical school where
as India did not have vocational colleges commonly
available during the parents’ school life.
In India we did not have vocational schools during
the grand parents school life.
The grand parents went to the household school
which was for boys and girls, but mainly girls
attended this school.
10. We the members of School life group enjoyed the
research work.
While taking the interviews we realized the
problems faced by our parents and grand parents
during their school life.
We developed the bond with our grand parents as
otherwise we would have never come to know how
their life was during their school life.
