4,000-Year-Old Student 'Writing Board' from Ancient Egypt (with Teacher's Corrections in Red)

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-4000-year-old-student-writing-board-from-ancient-egypt.html

[ananda]

1. As a former teacher, I think this is pretty kewl!

[ret5hd]

2. At least it wasn't Latin:

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's holding the sword to the throat for mentioning the dative for "motion towards"

that makes it art.

[sakabatou]

3. And teachers STILL correct in red!

[tblue37]

6. A few years ago there was a ridiculous push to get teachers to use green or purple rather

than red, because red was supposedly too aggressive and hurtful to use for corrections.

[dalton99a]

4. Hi res:

[Biophilic]

7. Something about this is just too cool. It made me smile and go, yup.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Twitter must have been a bitch in heiroglyphics...