Oddity of the Week: That's Entertainment!
Created | Updated Nov 9, 2014
What do you do for fun?
That's Entertainment
Do you know what struck us about this picture from somewhere in the 1930s or 1940s? You don't?
Look at it again.
Yeah, the kids aren't wearing Nikes. And they don't have t-shirts with cool sayings. But that's not all.
They're drawing, reading, and writing. And they're quiet. You can just see the concentration in their postures and faces. No attention-deficit-whatsit going on at all.
Most remarkable of all…there's not an electronic device in sight. There are no headphones, earplugs, mp3 players, iPhones, iPads, or computer gizmos in evidence. Nobody's texting, tweeting, or otherwise sending out nonsense over the invisible waves of social whatever. They are totally, completely engrossed in manipulating crayons, ink, and text. Wow. What a concept. We wonder what teacher thought of it?
Maybe we could hire her.
Just saying: turn off your devices occasionally. Come back to us, but in the meantime: stop and smell the flowers. Or the chalkdust.
