Back to School

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Going to School

This week, Sunday Stamps is dedicated to Education. Right now, schools and universities in my country are enjoying their holidays. But they will be soon back to school...

Lessons can be hard...

... But definitely better if you find good teachers!

Robert Panara

Mary McLeod Bethune

Cheers

Back to work with very good wishes for the New Year!

Sent by Bryon (the USA) and Heleen (the Netherlands).

Back to School!

 Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

Back to School!

Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). The Charlotte Brönte quotation (and exercise) included a vintage stamp of Shakespeare on the back. And it arrived along with a letter from the UK, bearing a stamp of the same writer. What a coincidence!

 Postcards sent by Laura (the UK).

Residential Colleges, University of Macao

I got this postcard through the Postcrossing site in December. It bore an ID from Macau, but the stamps were from China, not Macau.

Back to School

Liverpool University College Original Drawing, 
Alfred Waterhouse

Court of Collegium Maius of the Jagellonian University
(The oldest university in Poland)

Greek homework on a was tablet
(teacher's sample above copied by the pupil twice below),
Egypt, 2nd century AD

Graduation ceremony in the
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
('Middle East Technical University')

Postcard sent by John and Julien (the UK), Marek (Poland) and Deniz (Turkey). 

School Is Not Bad

School's not bad
but the bits between playtime are a bit annoying

Today the school year begins...

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK). 

Back to School... Again!

Laura (the UK) sent the perfect postcard for the back to English lessons, after two weeks off... Don't you think so?

Back to School

Laura (the UK) sent me all I need to get back to school today:

A hand-made postcard with some schoolmates...

... And a folded postcard with new school supplies!

Oxbridge

The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, the UK, on a postcard sent by John.

The Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, the UK. Sent by Laura.

Apparently, this college produces more
British prime ministers than any other!

And a more irreverent view of the British universities, on this illustration by Martyn Ford (How to be British No. 46), also sent by Laura (the UK).

Back to School

Cover of the Ladybird book Read and Write, 1964, by William Murray. Illustrated by J. J. Wingfield. Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

I added it to Postcards for the Weekend; the theme this week is Children.

Back to School

The only bad thing about holidays is that they finish one day...

Collage postcard hand-made by Laura (the UK).

This Pleases the Mailman

«There's something about the mail that works children into a frenzy. [...] This is especially true towards the end of summer when kids are beginning to turn feral. It's almost as if too much freedom causes them to lose their minds. So for the sake of society they're sent back to school. This not only restores mental health to parents, but it also ushers in a new found silence to the neighborhood. And this pleases the mailman greatly.»

Austin Brown, Walking with the mailman

School on Stamps

When I was a child, today tomorrow used to be the hardest day of the year for children. Because we had to come back to the school after a fantastic two-week holidays... And left at home the toys that the Three Wise Men had just brought! Sometimes I still feel reluctant and lazy on 6th January...

Some stamps school-related from Slovenia (the first one) and the Netherlands (the following three):

Back to the School Run

Sent by Laura (the UK).

Collage made from a catalogue of toys and some stickers, showing the Playmobil school. My friend sent this postcard on 5th January, to complain (slightly) about the end of the holidays. Well, today I am coming back to my Arabic lessons after one wonderful week of holidays. So this postcard must be appropriate, mustn't it?

By the way: have you noticed that this lucky teacher is having a cup of tea during the lesson?!?