Online Handouts. I grew up during the 1950s and ’60s, in a three-stoplight mill town in western North Carolina. Education was difficult for me – but learning was not. I enjoyed being in class, listening to teachers talk about our world and participating in discussions (in our continuing efforts to get the teacher off the subject). I had some outstanding teachers, who loved their work and who were magnificent lenses on the world that we lived in. Wiki Handouts. Presentation Visuals.