Change Your Underwear Twice a Week
Posted on September 30, 2004
NPR's Morning Edition,
Between the mid-1940s and mid-'70s, American schoolchildren were routinely shown filmstrips on topics ranging from the importance of cleanliness to the job of a welder. In his new book Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrip, author Danny Gregory revisits the wisdom these films offered.
Ah, good times. But I went to elementary school in the mid 80's so why do I remember filmstrips? Now that I think about it our wood and iron desks had built-in inkwells, and the duck and cover strips seemed oddly meaningless.
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