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How education has changed ?
Well first this depends on how old you are. I am kind of old so lets get Dick and Jane--216.194.21.191 23:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
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Dick and Jane
Two decades after U.S. school children began reading about Dick and Jane, many families were benefitting from a prosperous post-war economy. As suburban homes, ownership of cars, and increased purchasing power became reality for some families, Dick and Jane's comfortable world began to be experienced by an increasing pool of baby boom-era readers. [1]
Yes but this was in the 1950's and many may remember the one or two kids that never showed up to class in the 1970's.
In the 1950's many people could not read because they never went to school.
Times were different back then. No one really cared what you did with your kids.
But the murder rate was lower, a man was the “ King of His Castle” and most likely if your parents could not read or write, you as a child did not have to do this either.
But all the while in the back round was IBM and some other name ready to be born as the first data bases that were laid to rest in Windows 3.1 but live on in Command Prompt and Doss forever.
We as people in today's time are not that far away from Dick and Jane as the beginning of the world! We seem to know some thing but in this same process we have lost something too.
Some could say the world of Dick and Jane and Pam and Penny and Sally and Billy and someone's dog Spot was the base of all that we have today.
Maybe I should go find HR Puff N S tuff and Davie and Goliath. But I have some real memories of my experience with these names as well as the many fears that children of that era had to keep in tow.
Such as fear of the dark, fear your parents would die, fear of anything your mother did not feed you.
Those days were hard because as far as personal conduct even of a child, a lot was expected of you.
You had chores, jobs like going to the store and not spending the change, as well as various methods of punishment that hardly ever went to far, that you were bruised or hurt more then your pride for a little while.
If you failed at your assigned task which was what your Mom or Dad said to do. You had a Grandma or Pa but nobody listened to them that much and they too could dish out a quick slap if you got out of line. Should we shutter that children were hit?
No we should not .
We were hit out of love so we could be good. Which meant going to school, because surprisingly if our parents back then did not give the threat of boldly harm we might have not listened to any thing they said.
We were just those kind of kids every one of us. But we were and still are the future that you live in today that paved the way for most of all the new modern convinces you have right now.
So we wonder did we miss something?
In the link we posted there was the mention of .
“.........depicts a prosperity almost unfathomable to earlier generations.”
What can this mean? It means kids of the old days lived in a life something like the gang member of today as a testing ground if you were worthy to grow up. Most were.
There were no window guards, no first aid,no smoke detectors.
Just you, your family, a code of ethics and those yellow and blue signs that said “ Fall Out Shelter".
We went to school, we learned our history and never put it together that those signs were for us to find a safe place if a bomb was dropped.
We loved our Flag, we trusted no one we did not know and had babies when we grew up that one of them was me and maybe you
In the 1930' we had Dick and Jane too![2]
But by the first link Dick and Jane changed.
From the 1930's to the 1950's
When I come back I will tell you more about what this means.Im back.
The next phase of understanding is during the time between 1930 and 1950 many things had happened.
For many adults that grew up with the Dick and Jane Reader of 1930 by the time the 1950's rolled around they should have been any where between 27 to 35 years of age.
Still in their prime, but well beyond the wonder years phase of early adulthood.
Most had been around the block a few times weather it was based on a marriage and how many children they had or the lack of such a union.
Yes their parents were right.
Most likely about every thing they ever said.
As a young child they could not see the logic of any thing that most parents instilled as lessons to learn like: eat your green beans, wash behind your ears, look both ways before crossing.
But little did any one know during those years and the years of Dick and Jane to come, that many of the values that were common place were being instilled by an over all higher force.
You see to most, the 1950's generation was an evil seed. Singing and dancing in the way that they did and making all that racket. The styles were changing and phrases like 43 Skidoo seemed like jokes out of a comic strip and The Cats Meow was some kind of dance step not some thing you said when you though something was swell.
But just like the Fall Out Shelter sign of my generation and the knowledge of, but the inability to put it together.
Many in the 1950's failed to realized that the men and women of 43 Skidoo that's swell street.
Were the same men and women that had sacrificed so much to fight for our nation and others all around the world!
Like the Fall Out Shelter sign, stories of Hitler, the Nazis, World War II were things you heard but did not apply to your life.
You was rocking all night At the Hop trying to get laid by a chick name Bunny Bee.
The Dick and Jane illustrations reflected that.
As Dick and Jane, Mom and Pop looked disgruntled in the 1950's.
But hope was still alive because the readers of Dick and Jane in the 1950's grew up to be the free generation of the 1960's that went on to preach free love based in some ways on the stories told to them by I guess, Grand ma and Grand pa or Great grand ma and Great grand pa.
Because based on the world of that time in the 1950's it looked like every one was having a ball.
But I guess not.
WE wanted to end this here with Grand Ma and Grandpa .
But the we could not.
You see part of what changed from the Dick and Jane readers in the 1930s' to the 1950's and on in to the 1970's. Was the Dick and Jane of the 1930s was a happy, pleasant looking bunch of children.
That loved and learned in the way that was in accordance to how things were back then.
Based on the illustrations of the 1950's you could see that they became darker and sadder.
As who ever developed the program saw that it just did not work out.
They were disappointed.
In those day's even in the 1950's. most people that would be in charge of content for an age group such as learning to read young children had to be over 40 because that how things were done back then.
The Law was around the world still on the side of morality and there were things you just could not do or say especially in public.
Based on where the world was by the 1950's it did not work out the early plan.
But as Bunny Bee went on to have her own children and her children read Dick and Jane as well as her little sister.
There was a message being taught in every house and on every corner.
This message was the message taught to us by the Grand Parents.
Who, as by 1950 saw much, to much and gave to much of their own lives to this nation and the world as this was also in every corner of the world and every nation, just done differently based on the language tthey spoke.
Every nation had a type of Bunny Bee and a Sock Hop.
The Grand Parents were sad and most likely a little mad.
As your parents were to busy in the evolution of the sweat of their parents backs.
It was our Grand Ma's and Grand Pa's which out of fear of an apocalypse end, told the young children of the 1950's all about the world.
How it was for them and how lucky we were!
They showed us what the Fall Out Shelter sign meant, not the school or our teachers.
They taught us about the sirens and going under your desk in drills and how bad the Great Depression was.
It was them who taught us these things.
How hard they worked or about an Uncle who worked until he dropped dead.
We were kids we did not know what to do.
They were old and in some cases sad.
But what was really eating them was too adult to be understood by a young child.
We based on all that we had learned from all the places we had ever went to or seen .
We then,Tried to put together a package of what we thought it was. We wanted in the 1960's to love each other and bring peace to the world so our Grand Mother and Grand Father did not have to go fight in the war ever again.
We felt bad for them and inside we grew up wanting to surprise them that we had fixed all the things they had told us was wrong with the world.
BUT one by one they died and we cried because we loved them only wanting to make a better world so they could be safe and feel better.
When Bunny Bee became a Grand Mother she was different then our real Grand MOTHER,
she did not see it like that, she had her own morals as this was the reasons our Grand Parents were not happy.
Her and her loud friends made our Grand Parents die because she did not listen.
By the 1970's all grown up now and some of our grand parents still around we brought back Dick and Jane like in the 1930's, happy and sunny.
But it was by then too late.
The world has change and been irreparably harmed by Bunny Bee and her friends.
We say today we are sorry but it was not our fault it was the fault of our parents!
Thats all we can say.
But there is still hope maybe.
So to those that this may have touched now think about what I have said and that there is still hope.
And I hope you understand where that hope is and how.
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