"We were sitting at those high school desks," she recalled.

Starling looked at the scarred top of the school desk.

She just sat at her school desk being beautiful, rich and gifted.

Even an old school desk was transformed into a thing of beauty - as you can see in the picture on the right.

I turned away and walked to the man at the school desk.

He'd often doze off in the late afternoon, when I'd catch up on my reports over at his school desk.

My work space was a small school desk tucked into the corner of a priest's office.

Others said lights were hung above school desks for children and adults to study after the day's work.

Voluntary service creates the kind of understanding and knowledge which cannot be gained at a school desk.