Before it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker attended a small school with very old textbooks before a building exploded.
- In plain terms
- I went to school in an old building with outdated books.
- What can you take from it?
- Old infrastructure and resources were common in some past schools.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do conditions affect learning?
- What memories stick from old schools?
Another view
The reference to an explosion lacks context about cause or outcome.
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