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Back to school (where’s your homework?)

by National Library of Australia Commons

From primary school tots to high schoolers to university graduates; go down memory lane with images of students from the National Library of Australia’s collection.
Maybe you get nostalgic for your school days, or maybe you’re still cringing. Either way, there is no escaping growing older, so here is a chance to reflect on being a kid.

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Opening of Ainslie School by Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. S.M. Bruce, Canberra, September, 1927

School children and two teachers at Murrumbateman school, New South Wales, approximately 1910

Tilba school children. Headmaster John O'Brien

A group of school children with garden tools, Arbor Day, Montacute, South Australia, ca. 1912

A young girl holding a doll and reading a book at Waratah branch library, Newcastle, New South Wales, 13 September 1948

Classroom of boys seated at their desks / A.G. Foster

Bogong School [children playing in the yard in front of building, Kiewa, December 1947] [State Electricity Commission of Victoria] / [Frank Hurley]

Domestic class in a school, Newtown, New South Wales, ca. 1912

Students in woodwork class at school, Sydney, New South Wales / A.G. Foster

Dance at St Vincents Boys' Home, Westmead, New South Wales, 13 August 1948, 1

Group of students at [braze] welding class in school / A.G. Foster

[Young man touching a globe of the world, probably Hebron Blind School, 2] [Frank Hurley]

Hebron Blind School, blind student typin' in Braille Arabic translation of 'Robinson Crusoe' [Frank Hurley]

School students participating in physical education / A.G. Foster

Girls Hockey team in English school grounds, early 20th century / Rex Nan Kivell

In cloisters, vertical [Sydney University, 1940s] [Sydney, New South Wales] / [Frank Hurley]

Group portrait of engineering students, including Henry J. Deane, at the University of Sydney, 1897?

[Group portrait of graduating students from the University of Melbourne, ca. 1918?] The Sears Studio

[Sir Isaac Isaacs graduating, LL.M. University of Melbourne, 1880] Tuttle & Co., Melbourne

[Portrait of unidentified young woman wearing academic cap and gown, Tumut, New South Wales] R.C. Strangman