Physicists, Mathematicians, and Their Love for Chalkboards

The aesthetic aspect of using chalkboards in a classroom

Sunny Labh

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Do you remember the chalkboard era? I was in the fourth standard in school when the chalkboards in our classrooms were replaced with white marker boards and to be honest, I didn’t quite like it. There’s this deep aesthetic in writing with chalks on a blackboard. I’m not really sure if I’m the only one who thinks so though. Even in today’s day and age, many great universities prefer using chalkboards. If you ask some prolific…

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Sunny Labh

Science writer and communicator majoring in Quantum Mechanics. Curator of @PhysInHistory on twitter. Twitter: @thePiggsBoson