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Lessons in the Palime primary school in Togo, 1957.

Photo: akg-images / Paul Almasy

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A Greek red-figure vase painting from the early 5th Century BC depicting a pupil being taught to play the lyre, from a vessel now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing

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A manuscript illumination, circa 1300, showing a child being receiving into a cloister by monks.

Photo: akg-images / British Library

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"The Village School", a painting from 1896 by Albert Anker, now in the Kunstmuseum, Basel.

Photo: akg-images

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A maths lesson in an all-girls class of the 17th Primary School, Berlin-Friedenau, Rheingaustrasse 17, circa 1945/50.

Photo: akg-images (Heinz Röhnert)