History of moral education in Russia.

"These books are a mine of wisdom, of parables and legends, in which all the world's wisdom is concentrated," said Lena Morozova, a 26-year-old primary school teacher at Public School No. 26 in St. Petersburg. "They prepare the children for the future, for all problems of life that people must deal with."
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"We believe it is not possible truly to educate children unless there is a moral basis underlying the process," said Ms. Lopatina, saying that attempts merely to teach "knowledge" -- such as science, mathematics, and history -- become a fruitless exercise in memorization unless the students see a purpose for learning.

"Teachers spend years of their lives and millions of nerve cells on getting children to assimilate knowledge, while the children make every effort to repulse that knowledge, and resort to squirming out of work and trickery and whatever else it takes avoid lessons they neither like nor understand," she said.