teachers and the scholar concerned so that boys
and girls may learn all there is to know of
the profession they hope to follow. There are
no schools in Russia for separate castes or
classes ; neither are there class colleges, but,
like the common sense people they are, those
responsible for education do not attempt to
force all children through one machine made
sort of education ; neither do they judge
capacity merely by examination papers, or the
work of teachers by the number of children
that pass a particular examination.
One thing is taught almost hourly : that is the honourable character of all useful work. There is no teaching of the doctrine of “ get on,” no putting before the child as a worthy object of life the ambition to become rich and powerful or even to enter public life in order to get personal power. All education is designed for the purpose of making the child understand that labour of every sort that is useful is honourable : literature and Art, History and Science are all taught with the one object of making people useful. Ordinary work in factory and workshop is taught by allowing older boys and girls to go to these places as part of their school time. Girls are sent to hospitals and other public institutions to learn how to cook, wash and clean up. Education is not separated from work or work from education, the object being to show that
