Topics of school essays in the Russian Empire

Hello ATS!

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" publishes the article "What topics for essays were offered to high school students at the beginning of the 20th century." I want to share with you, dear ATS members, an excerpt from this article.

"So, here are some of the topics offered to high school students aged 12-13 at the beginning of the twentieth century:

- The fading of our garden in autumn.
- River on a moonlit night.
- Meeting the troops returning from the campaign.
- The forest at its best.
- Steamboat pier.
- Grandfather's kindergarten.
- Train arrival.


Here are the "Story Topics" for elementary grades:

- About what the bird saw in distant lands.
- The history of building a house and growing a garden with it...
- Giants and pygmies of the forest kingdom.

And here are “Topics of heterogeneous content” for senior high school students:

- The word as a source of happiness.
- Why is life compared to a journey?
- Homeland and foreign side.
- About the transience of life.
- What items make up the wealth of Russia and why?
- About the high dignity of human words and writing.
- About the fragility of happiness based solely on material wealth.
- About the manifestation of the moral principle in history.
- What is the spiritual connection between ancestors and descendants based on?”

A superficial analysis shows the depth of the approach to education, the goal of which is the formation of a full-fledged Personality, true patriotism, focused on the surrounding space. This presupposes the objectives of the School - not to “stuff people with knowledge” (as in a modern school!), but to teach them to THINK, to understand the MEANINGS of the surrounding life, both within the country and outside it. This is the main task of science in the 21st century.

Recently in Russia the Ministry of Education was renamed the Ministry of Enlightenment, as it was in the Russian Empire.

Thank you.

originally posted by: RussianTroll
Recently in Russia the Ministry of Education was renamed the Ministry of Enlightenment, as it was in the Russian Empire.

Lovely .. Big Brother is openly using doublethink and newspeak. They already have thinkpol. 1984.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Surely, the focus of the Russian education system is to "stuff people with propaganda and revisionist versions of history"?

a reply to: RussianTroll

When Putin was in school, teachers raised their hands to ask him questions.

a reply to: FlyersFan

I dunno, where I come Big Bro isn't really interested in Enlightening anyone, just abusing them for it's own Self Preservation if they become suspected Enemies of the State.

These topic seem better than the ones the KGB might have.

I'd rather a happy and enlightened populace, than another wave of Mass Murdering because folks feel disenfranchised.

But that's just me.

Maybe Putin knows what he's doing?

originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
I dunno, where I come Big Bro isn't really interested in Enlightening anyone,

Have you read 1984??? That's the point.
Big Brother doesn't really enlighten anyone, but calls itself the 'Ministry of Enlightenment'.
Doublespeak. Read 1984.

The lower grade topics sound woke. Guess they are still learning too. As for the more advanced students, I never got a topic like that on test day. In looking for the future, I like it.

originally posted by: FlyersFan

originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
I dunno, where I come Big Bro isn't really interested in Enlightening anyone,

Have you read 1984??? That's the point.
Big Brother doesn't really enlighten anyone, but calls itself the 'Ministry of Enlightenment'.
Doublespeak. Read 1984.

"1984 " was Written by an Englishmen named George Orwell in 1949 and the Premise of his Work was to Imagine due to the Political Climate at the time in England a Future England where a Tyranny overtook the Country . It was later compared to other Tyrannical Regimes around the Globe .

a reply to: FlyersFan

Dude, I spent three months in a VC cell subjected to # I won't get into here in the basement of a jail in Central Texas over a woman claiming I backhanded her when I just carressed her face.

Texas doesn't F around.

Trust me, I know my own Room 101.

a reply to: GENERAL EYES

No Law Against " Caressing " I Guess......

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

It was a very bizzare circumstance and she had Seniority.

I couldn't speak at the time and couldn't defend myself.

It was shortly after having a "visitation".

a reply to: GENERAL EYES

Yes , Well . We All have our Crosses to Bear in this Life . Just Gotta Deal with Life and Move onto the Next I Guess.

Russia seems like paradise. It's for sure the best country I have ever heard about. It's perfect. It's the best in the world. Everything about it is beautiful.
Don't get me started about your dear leader, he is also the best. Never in the history of this planet has there been a more intelligent, benevolent and just leader.
He has the looks, the charisma and the love for everyone (Russian) in his heart.
There cannot be a person on this planet who wouldn't want to be Russian under Putin.

All hail Russia. Destruction of everyone else!
I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!

(I guess that's what all posts of RT are after, I'm just trying to make this quicker).

a reply to: Hecate666

You forgot to mention how evil the Brits are, the English in particular?

Tsk.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

By the looks of it those pesky English Wizards and Witches must have cast some sort of spell on him considering the topic of some other "threads".

Germans as well by the looks of it.

Hence all that fascination and attention.

Hocus pocus Russia has lost its focus.

a reply to: andy06shake

Russian history in 5 words:

“And then things got worse.”

I don't know why Russians didn't see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming.

There were red flags everywhere....

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

I don't know why Russians didn't see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming.

That was decades ago, all done and dusted now. As for why the Americans cannot see a similar collapse happening?

a reply to: kwaka

Jeez....it was a joke! 😔

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Hecate666

You forgot to mention how evil the Brits are, the English in particular?

Tsk.

I included them/us and everyone else in the destruction part at the end. Gosh, but yes, the English, worst people in the world, I only lived here for over three decades [and counting] because I wanted to suffer even more, because I too am evil. Have you seen how many witches us Germans burned in his other thread?
I should have gone to Russia [then glorious USSR] instead but I wasn't aware of it's perfection then. 😉🍻

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

I agree. It's all good.

I've "died" several horrible deaths since then and I'm at peace with it now.