Appalled that 4m children did not even have desks, let alone schoolrooms, he invented a "lapdesk" that sits on the child's lap and provides a stable surface.
He found the rebellious Greeks sadly different from the classical figures of British schoolrooms, and the Turks much nicer albeit on closer inspection, especially after a visit to the wild east of Turkey, rather prone to distort history and mistreat women.
Children choke in their schoolrooms.
As for our schoolrooms, in 1986, legislation outlawing corporal punishment in state schools was passed by the narrowest possible margin, 231 votes to 230.
They were living in schoolrooms, mosques, and private homes, where they were sheltered and fed by local people — I heard of residents with a hundred or more people in their houses and gardens — in a spontaneous effort of self-organization that reminded me of the outpouring of aid that ordinary Burmese people extended to their countrymen after last year's cyclone.
Oh, God, she hated how both her eyes filled with tears in the cold months and in bright light, like the damn fluorescent light in all the schoolrooms and corridors.
Some of the films eventually opened in theatres, and later worked their way into schoolrooms and summer camps, where they were screened on rainy days.
At a registration desk, parents were lining up at a computerized check-in system to get name tags for their kids before sending them in to the schoolrooms for children's church, which offers Bible lessons, worship, playtime, and snacks.
Everywhere else, families crowded into the dim schoolrooms to watch what the clinicians did, and children poked their heads in the windows, which had brightly painted shutters but no glass.
You encounter dormitory corners and schoolrooms (complete with burbling potions); the hut of Hagrid, Harry's half-giant mentor; the Forbidden Forest, with its bizarre species; and Hogwarts's glittering Great Hall.
The athletes were housed in schoolrooms and Army barracks, said Nelson, who stayed in a flat with a seamstress who was a friend of an acquaintance of one of Nelson's friends.
