For us, our parents and even our grandparents; the education era according to Collins and Halverson (2009) that we lived in was known as didacticism because of its pedagogical approach. You may have thought that our elementary school years didn't have anything special, but the truth is that our education era had a structured plan of the objectives it wanted to achieve. For most students who did not attend to private schools, their education was responsibility of the state, and two of the most important expectations for us were to be always successful and also to acquire disciplinary knowledge; that is to say, they wanted us to learn as much as possible, even when that knowledge were unimportant on daily basis. Learning took place at school,  we were all divided by age cohorts, and a professional teacher was the authority figure.

I know I don't have to tell you much about this, 'cause you certainly remember, but it worked more or less like this: we were put in classrooms and during elementary school the teacher was the one in charge to switch for subject to subject using textbooks provided by the state, we where constantly graded by our homeworks, tests and even behavior. Sadly, all the mattered was to be academically intelligent, so if you were  good at dancing or painting, but sucked at math or language arts, you were basically done.