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- At the oral exam, one must not remain silent, and at the written one - take empty sheets. Speak and write at least something and say or write three points.

A person's own efforts are the most important thing; no books, no teachers, no outside help, no lessons can replace independent mental work.

I have never been able to do well in school. I have always been among the last in the class. I felt that the teachers did not sympathize with me, and that my father thought I was stupid, and I decided that I must be stupid.

The education of will in children is one of the most important tasks of the school. But for the most part, teachers are still experiencing great difficulties in this educational work. Unfortunately, we still have few books that would provide the teacher with concrete methodological assistance in the formation of strong-willed character traits in students. This book is intended for the teacher, it covers the issues of educating the will of children from the point of view of the classic Soviet school of the 50s.

There is an outstanding book "Near the Monastery Walls" by Sergei Volkov, one of the last graduates of the old Moscow Theological Academy. In my opinion, one of the best works about the Church and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra of the period of the revolution. Volkov knew Saint Tikhon, Hieromartyr Hilarion Troitsky, listened to Florensky's lectures, saw the closure of the Lavra in the 1920s and its opening after the war, taught, and became beggar. He died in the 1960s without having a family and spent his entire life working on diaries and memories, most of which have disappeared. But even what has been preserved and published in the form of the above book amazes with the volume of knowledge and amazing language, poetic, soft and deep, which marked the era of modernity.
But not only that is attractive. He was replaced by family, household amenities, friends, social circle of the book. He was a man who read all his life voraciously, who in the most bleak years obtained, bit by bit, rare, often forbidden books, analyzed them, got used to them, communicated with them as with living people. Reading, organizing what he read, analyzing texts and ideas became for Volkov the main and main business of life.
The records contain several thousand (!) Books, brochures and articles from the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. Volkov recalled how he returned to books during the difficult war years. “I again plunged into the world of knowledge and truly aesthetic pleasure. And again, as once upon a time in the academic years, I was carried away by all this. Antique World, Middle Ages and Renaissance; Goethe, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac; Persian, Japanese and Chinese poets; the history of China and Egypt, philosophical and archaeological journals, memoirs, works, travel - everything came to life for me again. I read new and re-read old books ... Books are material clots of the world mind and world soul - you were true teachers and companions in life. The Academy and Florensky, symbolists, mystics, dreamers, visionaries, poets, musicians - you are the joy and color of the world, teachers, mentors, friends, loved ones and relatives! All the people who came into close contact with me, who influenced me with their kindness, sympathy, affection, wisdom, all teachers, friends, acquaintances, students, comrades - I see, I remember and are grateful to you ”- he enthusiastically described his attitude to books. “How would I like to know,” he wrote, “what people like Romain Rolland, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Bernard Shaw, Herbert Wales, Aldington, Feuchtwanger think and say now? What books did they publish, what did they say about this war and about the people and life of our days in general? And I - a contemporary of these talented and deeply respected people dear to my mind and heart - do not hear their voices and their heartbeats "on such days." It is insulting and bitter. And you hear different chatter from all sides, and on the radio, and through newspapers and magazines ... "
Among those records that I had to see, there are whole sections - poetry (Knyazhnin, Soloviev, Agnivtsev, Merezhskovsky, Severyanin, Gumilyov, Pasternak, Teffi and dozens of other names), art history, prose (hundreds of titles - from Olesha, Ilf and Petrov, Bely, Antokolsky, Veresaev to Morua, Gashek, Locke), ancient history, medieval history, modern history, bibliography and, finally, philosophy - Russian and Western, which he knew brilliantly. He made careful extracts from various books about those he knew - first of all, about Florensky, whom he idolized. This is not counting the most varied periodicals and occasional brochures and articles. Separately, a list of "books that I would like to have" was compiled. Among them are Mandelstam, Muratov, Marienhof, Rolland, Nietzsche, Spengler ...
To "feel" that distant, tragic, densely saturated and wonderful time, you need to read not so many authors. Among them, no doubt, Sergei Volkov.

Any subject can turn into a punishment if it is poorly taught.

And how many teachers did not try to separate, we all sat at the same desk.

And yet he did not run away, this boy, whom teachers and relatives unanimously considered capable of anything; his enemies, without giving it, got the better of him: the teenager is defeated because he allows himself to be convinced of his insignificance.

Public education plays a decisive role in the war ... when the Prussians beat the Austrians, it was a victory for a Prussian teacher over an Austrian school teacher.

It is annoying that the teacher is some kind of sexual image. I dream that this category of teacher will be removed on porn sites. Because it discredits the attitude towards us. There is nothing sexy about the teaching profession. The only thing is that there is a little bit of BDSM. Because I decide when to write to them.

Mistakes are our teachers. Thanks to them, you understand what is good and what is bad. What is needed now and what never.

I am a very bad person, very stupid towards good, and therefore I need great efforts in order not to be completely a scoundrel. As Yuri Samarin once said very well that he is an excellent teacher of mathematics, because he is very dull in mathematics. I am exactly the same in mathematics, but I am, most importantly, the same in the matter of good - very stupid, and therefore not entirely bad - no, I will boldly say: a good teacher.

If teachers educate their many students, teaching them all the same lesson and demanding the same behavior from them, although their abilities are not at all the same, then it is not surprising that among the huge crowd of children there will be only two or three children who benefit from similar teaching.

Stones are reflected in the water. The image of God is reflected in people. Love is reflected in broken hearts. The truth is reflected in the stories that people tell each other. We all live, work and die under one invisible dome: rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, men and women, slaves and free people, sultans and drovers, teachers and disciples... Under this dome, we are all equal. Under it, any differences disappear, and all sounds, regardless of whether they express sadness or joy, drown in the silence of all-consuming love. This is how I imagine the Universe.