Photo Essays: Classroom Furniture--Old Styles
Figure 1.-- The children in this class had benches and stools. This was common in science classes and labs. This was a science class, but they were not doing experiments on the day we visited.
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We noticed quite a few schools, often the smaller boarding schools, that had the old fashioned wooden desks and benches. There were several different types of these old desks, including single and double seating arrangements and well as benches and stools. The individual or double desks seem the most common, but several chools had benches and desks. Here the type of class was afactir. Benches were especilly common in science classes and labs. At some schools the individuals desks were more important because the children were less likely to whisper and be distracted. Generally speaking the prep school children re well behaved and disciplined and with small classes this was less of a problem. While they may look beaten up, there ws a certain character to these old wooden desks compared to the sterility of modern school furniture.
