Apart from the academic subjects that mostly enhanced your own lives - how many of you produced anything material, such as in woodwork, metalwork, or perhaps in art or wherever, that one could give as a present to another, such as a parent?
The school I was at as a teenager seemed quite aware of the more practical applications of one's newfound abilities (haha) - I made a tripod for one of the three telescopes I owned then; a set of scales, for what purpose I can't remember; but I also made some wooden fruit bowls, a small bookcase, and a wicker stool, all given as presents to my mother. I probably enjoyed making then more than she enjoyed receiving them but perhaps not. One boy managed to send something being turned on a lathe into a projectile that disappeared through one of the (now broken) class windows.
Tell us what you made at school.
The school I was at as a teenager seemed quite aware of the more practical applications of one's newfound abilities (haha) - I made a tripod for one of the three telescopes I owned then; a set of scales, for what purpose I can't remember; but I also made some wooden fruit bowls, a small bookcase, and a wicker stool, all given as presents to my mother. I probably enjoyed making then more than she enjoyed receiving them but perhaps not. One boy managed to send something being turned on a lathe into a projectile that disappeared through one of the (now broken) class windows.
Tell us what you made at school.