From the subjects you learn to discipline and school dinners, much has changed in the world of education since the end of the 70s.
How fondly you look back on your time at school will probably colour what you think of those changes and whether they were for better or for worse.
But there are some things very few people miss about school back then, and others which have almost all people of a certain age pining for their lost childhood.
We’ve put together a list of things you’ll almost certainly remember if you were at school during the 1960s or 70s, but probably won’t otherwise.
How many of these do you recall, and what were the best and worst things about school back then? Let us know in the comments section.
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9. Big classes
It was not uncommon to have 35 or 40 pupils in your class back in the 60s and 70s, unlike today when class sizes are limited to 30. Spare a thought for the poor teachers, who had to try to keep pupils in order without the help of a classroom assistant. | Getty Images Photo: Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive