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Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches)
Title: Russia;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to make enough fuss and make himself suffi-ciently objectionable to always carry his point.Consequently, you find that the children dominatethe household. It is a common thing to go to anevening party and see small children of five or sixyears old sitting up till two or three in the morning.When you ask why they are kept up, you are told : Oh yes, of course it is very bad; but what is tobe done ?—the children have decided that they wontgo to bed till all the guests have gone. Then the boy goes to school, but even here helearns no ideas of discipline. The dominatingtheory now as concerns schools is that the pupilsmust never be punished. Again you are told itwould break their spirits and spoil their characters.The school is to be run and the boys charactersformed by moral suasion. The result naturally isthat the boys domineer and boss the school. Afriend of mine is one of the English masters in abig school in Moscow. Recently one of the boyswas making himself a nuisance, and my friend
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l.\ THE ENVIRONS OF MOSCOW: AWAITING THE POSTMAN SOCIAL AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS 243 scolded him. The boy repUed with an absolutelyobscene remark and gesture. As no master canpunish a boy, all the teacher could do was to orderthe boy to leave the room and report the case tothe principal, imploring him to uphold the authorityof the teachers by making an example of the boy.The principal summoned—he probably did not careto take upon himself the responsibility of decidingon any action—a meeting of masters to decidewhat should be done. All the foreign mastersvoted solid for making an example of the boy, andall the Russian masters were opposed to any pun-ishment. As no decision was come to unanimously,another meeting was called, with a like result, andthen a third. I think, so far as I remember, thatthe foreign masters saw the case was a foregoneconclusion, and so either did not attend the lastmeeting or abstained from voting. Anyhow, thefinal decision was that the boy should not be pu

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