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Quotation of the week
Månedens ordsprog
Eftertanken

The school "Yasnaya Polyana"

by

Leo Tolstoy

"Lessons began between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning. At noon, there was a break for
lunch and a rest. Lessons then continued another three to four hours. Every teacher gave
five to six lessons every day. According to their age, readiness and progress, the children
were divided into three groups: junior, middle and senior.
"Pupils did not have places strictly allotted to them. They sat where they liked. No
homework was given. The commonest form of educational activity was not the lesson in
the usual sense of the word but a free conversation with the pupils during which the
children learned reading, writing and arithmetic, their catechism, the rules of grammar,
and facts adapted to their age about history, geography and nature study. They also
learned to draw and sing."