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Other than the things already mentioned, you can read analog clocks easily from great distances, as long as the handles and the face have appropriate contrast (e.g. black on white). Even with impaired vision and large distance, being able to discern the rough position of black smudges on white background is enough to tell the time. This is not possible with a digital clock, because you can't distinguish between the digits as easily. Therefore, I'd certainly argue their much better for legibility in the back of a classroom or a lecture hall.

Well you can use the clock for giving headings. "that tree at 10". Then you have historical and ornamental clocks which might be nice to read. Like you can not design a digital clock to look as good as an analog one.

But yeah. Probably not many reasons really

Accessibility.

We will never get rid of the analogue clocks from our school, we're an adult education and alternative model highschool qualifications centre.

We primarily teach adults with no to low English, adults and teens with disabilities, and adults and teens refered via corrections services.

There is a significant level of illiteracy within numeracy, and for some of our students, it's not a failing of the education system, it's just a fact of life given their specific circumstances (eg, acquired brain injuries are common among our students)

Some students can learn to tell time on an analogue clock even if they didn't know before.

But even my students who will never in their life be able to fully and independently remember and recall their numbers can tell the time with an analogue clock.

I tell my students "we will take lunch at 12pm, so if you look at the clock and the arms look like this /imitates a clock/ we will go to lunch"

And now I avoid 40 questions of "when's lunch?" because you don't need to tell time to see time with an analogue clock, they can physically watch the hands move, getting closer to the shape they recognise as lunch time.

And my other students can just read the time, from the clock, and not feel infantalised by having a disability friendly task clock like they've done at other centres I work at - they've had a digital clock for students who can tell time, and a task clock as the accessible clock. But a well designed face on an analogue clock can do both.

I myself have time blindness due to a neurological/CRD issue, so analogue clocks, and analogue timers are an accessibility tool for me as well, as the teacher.

There are actually people who really benefit from analog clocks. Analog clocks are very visual and make it possible to ‘envision’ a block of time passing or approaching.

For example, for certain people with autism or ADHD, an analog clock with color coded segments can be helpful for planning things at certain times. I.e ‘breakfast is the green block’, ‘dinner time is the orange block’, ‘bedtime is the red block’. That’s a much more ‘physical’ way of telling time than an abstract ‘20.30’ of a digital clock.

Analog clocks aren’t worse or outdated. They’re a different way to achieve the same thing. Just because you can type on a keyboard, you’ll still want to be able to write with a pen, right? Same idea. It’s still a valuable basic skill to have.

My first thought was "yes", my second thought was "actually, maybe not?" and my third thought was reading the word clockwise in another comment which would need to be replaced with another word to indicate direction around an axis and its opposite

This might be just me but I feel like they help me think about time more clearly, and manage my time better. Maybe I'm a visual learner.

You can certainly make an argument for young kids, i.e. teaching fractions and literally how to count (counting seconds).

Teenagers? No, not really. They'll all have phones or something to tell the time by a certain age and hopefully they know their fractions / how to count. It might as well just be digital at that point.

Clocks were invented before electricity. If an EMP took out all the electronics, a mechanical clock is still the best way to measure longitude at sea

The swiss will never get rid of their iconic railway clocks

It's a cheap and easy way to teach children to visualize.

It's faster to read. I just need to look at an analogue clock to know the time but I have to read a digital one. That's the same reason why even modern planes and cars still have the round things with sticks, sorry I don't know what they're called in English, because it's easier to comprehend than numbers.