The history of the school. About desks, pens, and notebooks

One hundred years ago, there were no diaries, two hundred years ago, no one packed a backpack in the morning. So how did they learn back then? What assignments did primitive children have? What did children in Mesopotamia write on when paper had not yet been invented? Let's take a look at schools of the past and find out what a spill-proof pen, blotter, and when the first ballpoint pens appeared.