One from the attic

One shilling for a lovely book 'strongly bound in cloth boards'.

'Code of 1899
In the Senior Division instruction shall be continued as follows:-
Nature knowledge - Direct experimental knowledge of the Standards of Measure and Weight, practice in applying them, in representing them to scale, and in making simple calculations resulting therefrom.'

Crikey. Flicking through this school book, I see it covers a wealth of different topics, making it strangely compulsive reading. I didn't realise what I didn't know. Now I understand why people a generation or two ahead of me despair of what little knowledge the youth of today have.