"...much"

This hung in my 5th grade classroom.

French peasants praying the noon, Angelus.

Much else hung there.

Portraits of our national personalities.

Franklyn Washington Lincoln FDR.

A flag hung with a map of our country. 

There was a large globe showing the nations of the world. Also a chart of the solar system as we then understood it.

The alphabet in both Roman and Cursive. 

Basic math equations.

There were cards with numbers. 

Including Roman numerals

There was also cross this being a Catholic school.

All of the above were lessons in who we are and when and where we are. There was also a clock. This to tell us the past was gone we were in the present with the future even arriving.

A whole education at a glance. 

By the standards of that day a functional summation. 

If no teacher ever arrived, we'd have the cultural basics. 

You're American you have a culture a history. 

You're on planet earth and there are other countries and planets around us. There's art a past and a future.

We saw this all day everyday. 

Variations in classrooms witnessed for months years.

Even if we weren't paying attention.

 Never read or studied...we slowly got it.

It's the small details that are important.

Today it's another matter.

They're removing clocks from schools because kids can't read them. These are replaced with digital timers.

There are no maps globes portraits nothing. 

This my teacher friends confirm.

Such has given us generations of narrowly focused uniformed citizens.

Which explains much.