I'd like to tell you about Russia's education at first.
Thanks to advice of Reiziuh, I convert my comment into the blog.There are many features of Russian education, similar with those in other countries while there are some differences.1)Nowadays, there is a lack of kindergartens, for in nineties many of them were closed. Kids attend them for 3-4 years (since 3 to 6(7) years old). Parents are supposed to pay for it.2)At the age of 6-7 all the children start attending school. There is no strict dividing different schools on their levels- only elementary school is marked out.The term of schooling is 11 years. Secondary education is compulsory and is free of charge. Recently, the government has started debating the question of partly parents' paying - 10-11 grades.Bad and good features:a)The curriculum is very complicated- I mean all subjects! E.g., many children who used to study Maths in the USA, were surprised with the tasks' easiness!b)Lack of certain kinds of teachers- especially those who teach foreign languages, PT and IT. There isn't any compulsory exam in Foreign language.c)Frequent radical changes in the form of final exams. Since 2009 it's been Unified State Exam - form of graduation examinations in schools and the main form of preliminary examinations in universities (the US testing form had become a model for the Russian ones).d) There is a wide range of different educational institutions-colleges, institutes and universities. They are divided into state and private institutions. The state ones are regarded to be as more prestigious.e) Before the recent time the sertificates hadn't satisfied the International requirements formally.f)In a classroom there are usually about 25-30 school students.The new Unified State Exam was introduced in order to eliminate corruption and give equal potentialities to all the school-leavers, especially from remote areas. And now teachers intimidated by local authorities -not all of them - allow the students to cheat at the exams (using mobile phones and so on),as a rule, unselfishly.It's interesting to know about school life in your country, especially funny facts! :) ">object>
Thanks, Artem for the reply. I know these true statistics, thanks for promulgating! Partly you're right, but in general... or vice versa: in general, you're right, but partly...:)))
I think, arguing is not very efficient, so I won't. In general, I agree with you, but partly...
Natasha, of course they do!
And the answer "why" is simple - there're not so many children to attend kindergartens, schools etc. As I wrote recently. Every year the percentage of the pensioners to young generation is rising, every year 1 million of russians disappear for eternity. In 90th there were over 150 mln of people in Russia and a lot of children (we among them!), what is happening now.. well, it's at least very sad - 135 mln. And they NEVER tell us about this on TV in "Vremya" or smth.
Hope you understand my opinion
Artem, it's very nice you take part in the discussion. But you've failed to keep pace with life, haven't you? Local authorities ( the Government) have been closing down superfluous and not so very superfluous kindergartens and schools everywhere - perhaps,except for Moscow and St Petersburg regions (for certain reasons). I know it for sure.
To appreciate the international level of our universities at its true value, we should know the assessment criterions - possibly, we follow the principal standards and are not very good at secondary ones.
Thanks for giving praise to me!
Natasha, it's very interesting topic to discuss.
As about kindergardens - it depends on the region, in Spb and Moscow, yes, there's lack of them. But in small cities-villages vice versa! There's lack of children to study both at schools and kindergardens. 5 or 6 kids sit in the classroom for 30 or 40 persons..
And, in fact, the international level of our universities is veeery low.. Our most famous Moscow State University is on the 140th or 150th (don't remember exactly) position in the world ratings. Very sad! On the other hand, our students always seem to be the smartest and the better specialists than european or american, do you agree?
P.S. I admire your succeed in learning English) very good
Hi Tom,
It's my pleasure to read your comment. It's very good you've got such nice memories about your school life and friendship. Thanks for your comment!
Hi Reiziuh, thanks for your comment!
In general, classrooms look nice and cosy in our schools. Nowadays, much more money is laid out to school education, and a lot of small schools are closed down ragularly to save money. And what about your country?
Hardi, I think you could become a writer :) under other circumstances! To be more precise, - a script writer. I'm not joking...
No wonder that your brother was fond of reading "Peter I"! It's a great novel by Alexey Tolstoy( don't confuse with Leo Tolstoy). The author hadn't finished it, it was a big disappointment for me, and I also read it many times.
My mom taught reading to me. There was children book with the title "Memme musi"(embarrassing title, translates as "mom's kiss"). It was about rabbits family.. don't remember it exactly, but I think the little rabbit got courage from mom's kiss and was able to do anything, since he had mom's kiss. lol
But I had to read also some other books to her too, didn't have to read the book with embarrassing title.. and I cheated. I remembered the context of some stories words by words, so I had just to follow the words in book with finger and pretend that I'm reading them from book when saying words out.
I still can't swim, my dad tried to teach it to me. We had also swimming glasses to pool in elementary school, but I'm still afraid of water. I don't play chess, nor guitar also.. I had my brother's old balalaika, but these instruments are all horribly difficult to play... I can play something simple in Piano maybe.. something that can be played with 2 fingers. lol
But although I learned to read before elementary school. Unlike my older brother I have never liked to read books.. except text books of mechanic. My older brother loved to read a book titled as "Peter I" (I think it's a book by some one called Tolstoy.. lol Never read any of his books, so not sure.)
I suppose he read it about 200 times at least. I wonder why.. maybe he had actually porn hided under those covers. lol He almost never wanted to go to do something fun with me, instead he was reading that book.
You go on making me laugh! By the way, I never listened to explanations at the lessons, because I thought it was boring. Almost all the things, which I know or can do, I learned by myself, except reading. My father taught me how to read when I was 3. It was one of few things that he could do patiently. He failed to teach me swimming, playing the guitar, chess, because he wanted immediate results. I learned all mentioned by myself :P LOL. So did the English language in a large measure!
My father was good(a little hysteric), so was wonderful my mother. Thanks to them I'm the way I'am.
Even though you're a teacher. I have to agree in this one time with you. Pretense is worst! In either way.. whether they pretend to be too kind, or too evil. It's never good. :P
PS. Unlike you and yoh, I actually have almost no knowledge of English pronunciation. All the English I have learned, is learned by using computer/Internet. No stupid teachers involved! :P LOL
But from tv. I have got some knowledge of English pronunciation too. But it's not important for me. I don't plan to communicate in speaking English anyways.
Actually, my chemic teacher said. Languages are unimportant. You kids don't have to know, how to call salt in different languages. You only need to know, that it's formula is "NaCl". Leave Germans test/homework aside and learn, what's really important! :D
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I think, arguing is not very efficient, so I won't. In general, I agree with you, but partly...
And the answer "why" is simple - there're not so many children to attend kindergartens, schools etc. As I wrote recently. Every year the percentage of the pensioners to young generation is rising, every year 1 million of russians disappear for eternity. In 90th there were over 150 mln of people in Russia and a lot of children (we among them!), what is happening now.. well, it's at least very sad - 135 mln. And they NEVER tell us about this on TV in "Vremya" or smth.
Hope you understand my opinion
To appreciate the international level of our universities at its true value, we should know the assessment criterions - possibly, we follow the principal standards and are not very good at secondary ones.
Thanks for giving praise to me!
As about kindergardens - it depends on the region, in Spb and Moscow, yes, there's lack of them. But in small cities-villages vice versa! There's lack of children to study both at schools and kindergardens. 5 or 6 kids sit in the classroom for 30 or 40 persons..
And, in fact, the international level of our universities is veeery low.. Our most famous Moscow State University is on the 140th or 150th (don't remember exactly) position in the world ratings. Very sad! On the other hand, our students always seem to be the smartest and the better specialists than european or american, do you agree?
P.S. I admire your succeed in learning English) very good
It's my pleasure to read your comment. It's very good you've got such nice memories about your school life and friendship. Thanks for your comment!
In general, classrooms look nice and cosy in our schools. Nowadays, much more money is laid out to school education, and a lot of small schools are closed down ragularly to save money. And what about your country?
No wonder that your brother was fond of reading "Peter I"! It's a great novel by Alexey Tolstoy( don't confuse with Leo Tolstoy). The author hadn't finished it, it was a big disappointment for me, and I also read it many times.
But I had to read also some other books to her too, didn't have to read the book with embarrassing title.. and I cheated. I remembered the context of some stories words by words, so I had just to follow the words in book with finger and pretend that I'm reading them from book when saying words out.
I still can't swim, my dad tried to teach it to me. We had also swimming glasses to pool in elementary school, but I'm still afraid of water. I don't play chess, nor guitar also.. I had my brother's old balalaika, but these instruments are all horribly difficult to play... I can play something simple in Piano maybe.. something that can be played with 2 fingers. lol
But although I learned to read before elementary school. Unlike my older brother I have never liked to read books.. except text books of mechanic. My older brother loved to read a book titled as "Peter I" (I think it's a book by some one called Tolstoy.. lol Never read any of his books, so not sure.)
I suppose he read it about 200 times at least. I wonder why.. maybe he had actually porn hided under those covers. lol He almost never wanted to go to do something fun with me, instead he was reading that book.
My father was good(a little hysteric), so was wonderful my mother. Thanks to them I'm the way I'am.
PS. Unlike you and yoh, I actually have almost no knowledge of English pronunciation. All the English I have learned, is learned by using computer/Internet. No stupid teachers involved! :P LOL
But from tv. I have got some knowledge of English pronunciation too. But it's not important for me. I don't plan to communicate in speaking English anyways.
Actually, my chemic teacher said. Languages are unimportant. You kids don't have to know, how to call salt in different languages. You only need to know, that it's formula is "NaCl". Leave Germans test/homework aside and learn, what's really important! :D
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