Timeline for Old Cambridge examination: Draw, from memory, a wheelbarrow turned upside down
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| Nov 1, 2022 at 17:00 | history | edited | Bysshed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 8:59 | comment | added | erstwhile editor | @AndreasBlass. Perhaps not in 1858? And not this Board, which if my memory serves me, was set up to examine pupils at state/local schools. There was another Cambridge Board which provided examinations for "public" -that is private, upper and middle class - schools; it would be interesting to explore their syllabuses. | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1276258873490444290 | ||
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| Jun 25, 2020 at 19:40 | answer | added | Anyon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 19:21 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | Maybe an attempt to reduce cultural bias --- this question would be a bit easier for lower-class students who had actually seen the underside of a wheelbarrow :-) | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 19:01 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @SolarMike Absolutely. I studied mechanical drawing at middle and high schools, and it helped me designing mechanical devices for my experiments along the years. I also studied electronic drawing and I'm appalled that my electronic engineering students cannot properly draw a circuit (switches seem particularly troublesome) and cannot recognize certain components when looking at professional schematics. | |
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| Jun 25, 2020 at 18:53 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @MassimoOrtolano still a useful skill now - one that I possess and one that both my sons (polymechanicien) have learnt and use every day, and it is not just drawing but reading and understanding the drawings. | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 18:48 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | To see how well they could draw? It's just a guess, but take into account that in the past—and in a not-so-distant-one—handrawing, and especially technical drawing, was frequently considered an important skill. | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 18:44 | history | asked | Bysshed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |