Episode 23- Education

Welcome to the Eastside Community Heritage podcast, bringing you stories from our archive of over 2000 oral histories and thousands of photographs. School, whether primary school or senior school, is more than just a place for many of us- it is a marker of time we use to measure our early lives, a space we had to learn and grow, a reminder of how our identity developed before we were really people. This is why commonplace moments, however fleeting, stay with us well into adulthood. This week, we hear from school kids, past and present, and their experiences in the state education system. We hear from children of the 50s, ‘60s, ‘80s, and 00’s about their experiences of school and answer the question, what does ‘Getting an education mean’?