Chapter 5 Excerpt from the old teacher's notebook

Excerpt from the old teacher's notebook "It is said that the family should go hand in hand with the school. True, but on one condition: the family must be of an upper class, and not of merchants or petty bourgeois; School ethos. However, sometimes out of philanthropy, merchants and well-to-do philistines should not be deprived of happiness, such as inviting teachers to their homes to eat pies and so on." "As soon as the female students heard it, they lowered their eyes gracefully and blushed. As soon as the male students heard it, they looked forward to the future with hope."

"Since the alphabet and the vocative case in the grammar are almost no longer used in the Russian language, it is just that the salaries of Russian teachers should be reduced, because their work is lessened by the elimination of some letters and cases. gone." "Our teachers advise students not to waste their time in reading novels and newspapers, which interfere with concentration and distract the mind. Furthermore, novels and newspapers are of no use. However, if the teachers themselves devote much time to How can students trust their teachers when they read newspapers and magazines? Physicians have to cure themselves first! As for me, then, in this respect, I am completely innocent: for thirty years I have not even had a book and a Haven't even read a single newspaper."

"When lecturing to students, great care should be taken to ask them to send their books in hard bound; for only when the book is bound in hard bound can one strike a student on the forehead with the spine of the book." "Children! What a blessing it is to have a pension!" "Notes" ①②In Russian, they mean "sentence" and "connection", but the former is also interpreted as "marriage proposal", and the latter is also interpreted as "marriage". ③④ are all grammatical terms in Russian, but they can also be interpreted as "accompanying objects" and "dowry".