The new generation knows about nothing about this…

by Educational_Shape36

33 comments
  1. I’m 37 and this has unlocked a memory buried deep.

  2. I remember seeing those in either reception class or nursery 

    I don’t recall ever using them

  3. 57 and having a feeling old moment….

    Ours were cardboard.

  4. I am genz and we had those in primary school. I am really confused by this whole genre or millenials and gen x complaining about something that is not true and it getting thousands of upvotes and comments because nostalgia bait.

  5. OP, do you think they don’t teach kids to tell the time in 2025?

  6. They sell these on Amazon. Presumably they also sell them for kids and not just people reminiscing about the good old days, back when people could tell the time.

  7. I vaguely remember using these in Year 2, though the teacher had the big yellow one and us students had really cheap flimsy cardboard blue ones.

    I also remember in Year R, we had a big cardboard clock which had cards for the day, month, year, weather, season and other stuff and every morning someone would get picked to update it for the day.

  8. I’m old as balls and haven’t a scooby doo, squire.

  9. The teacher had the big one, we made ours out of paper plates, some cut out hands held with a brad, and numbers written on with marker.

  10. some of you forget that the oldest of gen z is pushing 30 atp give it a rest

  11. For some reason I never knew how to read a clock until I was year 8. It just never made sense to me, then I was in German class and we were learning how to say the time in German and suddenly it just all made so much sense.

  12. Until you have to teach another human to tell the time on an analogue clock, you dont realise how ridiculous the system is. As adults you just take it for granted, that 6 is 6 but also 30 and also half etc…

  13. We’d have a page of blank clock faces made with a stamper, and an accompanying list of times, e.g. “quarter past two”, and for each one we had to draw the clock’s hands in the right place. This was in the 1970s.

  14. Mr Fancy over here with cogs in it! I just had a plastic clock with pull out tabs (e.g. ’10 past’, ‘Quarter to’) and manually movable hands!

  15. Analogue clocks?
    Phones and other digital displays of time are more common now than before, but analogue clocks definitely still exist.

  16. Fifty seven here and so I know nothing about them either. Or am I considered new generation, be nice.

  17. It’s time to do to the dentist!

    (Beanio cartoon, 1969)

  18. We just had a rubber stamp with a blank clock face stamped into our exercise books and had to draw in the hands with a pencil.

  19. I think I was more interested in playing with the gears than ever learning the time off them.

  20. currently a volunteer TA in a primary school. we still have these. theyre still yellow and blue and old as fuck. theyre probably the same ones. op just hasnt been to a school.

  21. Those kids have no idea what went on at Stalingrad.

  22. I remember pushing the hour hand would make the minute hand whip around and whack you on the finger. 

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