This kind of goes hand in hand with this thread. I’m wondering what sort of symbols there are for teachers or education around the world. In the US, we have the apple, to give one example.
What other symbols are there?
In many commonwealth countries, especially in Public Schools (thats private schools for you Americans) teachers usually wore a robe in class and in many places they still do.
If you’re not restricting yourself to current times, I’d say
a pointer
a mortar board (cap)
a dunce cap (though not worn by teachers it certainly evokes thoughts of school)
a slate – particularly one with A B C written on it
perhaps a cane or a tawse
I can’t think of any for Spain, the closest thing would be a desk in the same model as those of the students, but bigger (this is common in “unified schools,” with all the students in a single classroom, and in lower grades of normal schools). Even when the immense majority of our schools belonged to religious orders, there were both secular teachers and people from those orders who didn’t teach. And at least for me, a blackboard (green, of course) brings to mind the school rather than the teacher.
