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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:53:59 -0500, "Fred" wrote:
Other uses were the production of prints (shamrocks, snowflakes, bunnies, etc) for little tots to color. In an ideal society, hectographs would still be available to primary-school teachers. It's educational for the tots to make their own coloring sheets with a technology that has all its gears hanging out where you can see them. And yes, you can trust small children with stuff that stains if you explain and expect them to exercise care. I swear, we are raising a generation that will still be using plastic blunt-point scissors at twenty-one! But hectograph pencils are as far as I'd go. Even the most careful person knocks over a bottle of ink once in a while. Hectograph ink isn't fast to sunlight, but it has an unlimited ability to spread. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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"Joy Beeson" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:53:59 -0500, "Fred" wrote: Other uses were the production of prints (shamrocks, snowflakes, bunnies, etc) for little tots to color. In an ideal society, hectographs would still be available to primary-school teachers. It's educational for the tots to make their own coloring sheets with a technology that has all its gears hanging out where you can see them. And yes, you can trust small children with stuff that stains if you explain and expect them to exercise care. I swear, we are raising a generation that will still be using plastic blunt-point scissors at twenty-one! But hectograph pencils are as far as I'd go. Even the most careful person knocks over a bottle of ink once in a while. Hectograph ink isn't fast to sunlight, but it has an unlimited ability to spread. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net Joy You stretched what I was saying just a tad. It was the teachers that produced the prints for the tots to color. I was many years past the tot sage before I ever got my fingers stained. LOL Your predictions about blunt-point scissors has probably already taken place. Nothing ruffles my feathers more than purchasing an item for $4.98, give the young clerk $5 + 3 pennies expecting a nickel in change and the clerk has to get out a calculator to figure out what is going on. Grrrrrr Fred http://www.stitchaway.com If you are on thin ice you might as well dance Don't back stitch to email just stitchit |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:35:20 -0500, "Fred" wrote:
You stretched what I was saying just a tad. I was speaking from personal experience -- I pulled my own coloring sheets off the hectograph from first grade on. Of course, there would have been at most ten children standing in line, unless the teacher gave the same coloring sheets to both grades. (One grade would read or work problems while the other grade was being instructed.) (The fifth grade drove the sixth grade nuts by memorizing "Abou ben Adam" before they did, and reciting it to them on the playground.) Didn't get to create masters until I was in high school, though. (Spirit duplicator by then. Part of the typing course.) No, I *did* get to use a hectograph pencil. Don't recall exactly when and why, but pencils were out of date by the time I was in high school. You had to be very careful not to touch the line you had drawn. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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