THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Donegal, 1936: first-aid and resuscitation
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
London, 1932: biology, and/or sex
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Notts, 1949: agricultural training (which surprisingly was not a cipher for 'get them out in the fields, it's harvest time')
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Surrey, 1931: the law pertaining to bigamy (!)
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Parliament, 1895: the metric system. Well, that one went well.
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Argyllshire, 1899: domestic science ("cooking, laundry work, dress making and housewifery")
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Edinburgh, 1875: physiology
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Louisiana, 1886: "the science of forestry"
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
London, 1892: writing poetry
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Kingston-on-Thames, 1949: golf
(unusually, it actually got put into practice!)
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Another from the "well they would, wouldn't they": 1934, and the National Bridge Association recommends bridge be taught in schools. While making it sound surprisingly murderous.
THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:
Geneva, 1923: Esperanto