Yes, I’m afraid that ‘child centred’ education is still alive and well!
1962: Essential information
The husband has been working late so he will have missed the family’s evening meal. On his return he receives information on a ‘need to know’ basis. The Archers were (and still are) broadcast at 6.45 p.m. The wife has gone out perhaps to an evening class on pottery. The oven looks like the famous Aga.
1962: Shared Paddling Pool
The dog’s fur has absorbed almost all the water in the miniature paddling pool.
1962: Politically incorrect display tea party
Animals are treated with much more respect in modern zoos.
1978: Sponsorship
The major has accepted sponsorship! The world was changing fast and by 1978 Punch was itself facing obsolescence. I doubt that this type of joke would have appeared much earlier.
That’s a belter 
1962: Italian food consumption
The two staples of an Italian meal have been combined. The Italian diner is consuming his wine while eating his spaghetti.
1962: Just on a whim
What does the artist mean by this cartoon? Is it because this is highly unlikely? Or, perhaps, to highlight that this service does not need to be paid for? I can’t identify any other reasons.
yes probably because it was free, getting something for nothing on a evening out .
Those were the days when you could just drop in with out an appointment ,I remember them ,going as a 8yr old with my brother ,looking round the room to see who was going before me .
1962: Foreigners! …
A deeply repulsive brigand has abducted a single young woman slightly known to the British couple. I see this as an adverse comment on the whole concept of going abroad. Miss Taylor would have been better off taking her holiday in Bournemouth.
Oddly enough cheap package holidays were just beginning to take off by 1962 but for the most part those who went on them tended never to leave the hotel and to stay all day by the pool.
1963: Surprise when moving in
The house is called ‘River Cottage’. The couple moving in are rightly disconcerted to see the skeleton of a fish lodged half way up a tree. In reality there would have been much more visible signs of flooding when looking at the state of the house.
1962: An alligator reckons his chances
The cartoonist pretends that alligators understand the uses that Western societies may want to make of their skin. Nowadays some people would prefer the actual skin as being much more sustainable than plastic.
1962: Visual Aid
It’s quite hard to see the point here. Presumably the teacher is speaking Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well’ using a football to represent the dead man’s skull. How is this considered suitable material for Punch?
1964: A false forecast
Try telling that to Apple, Google and Facebook. The big players continue to make big profits.
1962: Legal realism
Marriage Guidance was practiced at the time. I reckon that these days it’s called conflict resolution.
1965: Sacking the Manager
Reluctant to sack the football team’s manager? This suggests a soft heart that one does not instantly associate with football club directors.
1964: Garden gnome worship
Thelwell has imagined a religious life in the garden. The garden gnome sitting on a mushroom / toadstool is being worshipped by snails.
1964: Beatlemania
Pure hell? I suppose the constable is dreading the outbreaks of unrest when the sales start at exactly the same time as tickets will be on sale for a performance by the Beatles. The artist has shown the generational difference with the oldies wanting cut-price bargains in the sales and the youngsters wanting to see the fab four. Beatlemania was at its height in 1964.
1965: An important man
As he purposively enters his office all the phones are symbolically leaping from their cradles to insist upon his urgent attention. No doubt that is how he sees it.