These wonderful photos, plucked from the archive, from the 80s and 90s prove just that. They feature teachers and staff at schools, both primary and secondary, as they hang up their marking pens and look forward to retirement.
How many of these do you recognise and remember?
MORE NOSTALGIA: 20 great photos from Derbyshire school prom nights down the years
MORE NOSTALGIA: 20 great photos from Derbyshire school prom nights down the years
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