In Russian schools’ blows is a different wind than here. Cold, rough and without love. Especially the latter has no place in these venerable halls of wisdom and ... above all halls of humiliation. Discipline and order still prevail and there are means of always maintaining this condition. Rituals and approaches of modern pedagogy play no role here, they are just laughed at. Any attempt at modern education without beatings is dismissed here as balderdash.

But why should one simply exchange traditions that have been tried and tested for decades? From our Elle Mira's point of view, th... Show more