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View of classroom and wood-work class at Brunswick State School. The boys are all wearing aprons. This photograph shows an 'Educational Sloyd' woodwork class at Central Brunswick State School, 1915. Ronald Alfred Cheers is the first boy on the right of the photograph, aged about 12. 'Sloyd' was a special kind of teaching technique, where students would learn general skills like manual dexterity and discipline through crafts such as woodwork.

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