SCHOOL DAYS
Those countless wonderful days that you remember and miss so much once out of school. Those memories that quickly return each time you pass by your school, or any school. Do you remember the time on the playground? Do you remember your special friends and how you always hung together on the playground?
For the Amish children, the sound of the school bell signals a time to shift attention from field work to school work, a time to drop the hoe and pick up a pencil. The one-room school takes the students through the eighth grade, and restricts worldly influences and stress the basics such as reading, writing and arithmetic. The importance of the community and cooperation among its members are also emphasized. India Ink and watercolor.