Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-12-17
RUSSIAN SCHOOL system
Secret Conduct Records Kept
Almost from lnEncy.
A MORAL BILL OF HEALTH
Entire Glasses often Combine In DIS
obeyins Their Teachers-lnsolence
and Rudeness Common-Teachers
often Assaulted-Police System.

| Inc recent circular OF the Minister
of Public Instruction, NJ. Sanger, on
the decay of discipline in intermediate
schools and a portion of the primary
schools in the cities cannot be consid-
cred as other than a confession Of the
weakness of the police theory of popu-
lar education which has been so stub
bornly followed in Russia during the
last half-eentury, not to speak of learli-
er times. The Minister is well aware
that the evil results of imposing police
duties upon the school teachers are
nothing new. One Of his first Acts as
Minister was to order The 6iscohtinu-
ance of the secret cOnd0ee Acords
,yhiRh- Vsscd to accompany the gym
4 nasiun scholars to the universities and
1 other higher educational institutions,
and which rendered many an unhappy
youth political suspect almost from
his infancy. This testified to the
Minister'S benevolent disposition and
sound judgment, since 1t is universally
admitted in Russia that these secret
records erected an impossible barrier
between pupils and teachers. The
abandonment of the secret records
was, however, only one step and the
Minister does not SEEM to have de-
cided upon a second. His late circu-
lar seeks to maintain the police sys-
tenn and to make it more efficient. AT
the same time, it urges the teachers tc
acquire and exercise a wholesome
moral influence upon their charges
AS a matter of fact, it is well under
stood that the scholars hate theil
teachers, despise their legalized in
struction, and regard forbidden litera
ture as alone w9rth study merely be
cause it is forI idden.
All this $3.50 we'll understood thai
teachers Who attempt to cultivate
friepdlyss cations with their scholars
liz the n e" d with suspicion by bott
l a. Is sn nice school authorities. This
cularsy ,,h pro by scores Of secret cir
", the Mii ntOn We been sent out from
Ill dnrin 1u ,Ey o. Public instruction
~ q, lug - Sangely own term Of Office
- o'yntended%o convey the i'm
p eSslon hit NJ. Salger is insincere
ne Justly eroys publ sympathy ant
esteem to an unusual degree. His cir
GUAR, however. shows that he has un
dertaken the impossible
Inc Minister Complains that entire
ciasSeS often combine in disobeyins
lnelr Superiors. Instances of insolence
ana rudeneSs are common. Teachers
nave been personally assaulted. and
many scholars in senior forms are ON
- gageu IN secret propaganda against III.
government. Instead of adn,i++ir =
that 1t is the police system of ednca.
ZION which engenders hatred and ron,
tempt of all authority, the Minister
oiames the teachers for taking no heed
10 the conduct of scholars in the
streets and in public places. Scholars
he says, not only smoke in the streets
and leave off portions of their school
UNIFORM but fail to salute the renre.
sentauves of the Ministry or even the
Governor-General 1t is no doub6 true
mat in the large cities the teIchers
nave accustomed themselves II lay.
e. er supervision of scholars out Of .1chool
'han Is customary in the Sler
provincial towns SWaf
A Russian in a certain WALL v
0aoeu instance had some dificuItv u
procuring clean mora %bii, M
neaIth when he desired o entou OF
When pressed tho "'er
nasium director said. "e gym
You are a Socialist" Z
How do you know I am q g..
st| social
'"hy at fifteen years Of age vou
we're seen in the streets with Herhertl
pencerS Sociology sic under vo,e
iii. IN the provincial owns b
-"oiaTs OF upper forms rbiet IA
uomlclllary visitations, accompan,
u ny the seizure of books held to bel
suitable for their age, and must sd
re written permission from the heal
aSIer before daring to visit a COM
ue. In the former Lithuanian pro-
lces, now forming the general gov
lment of Wilma, school children ar9{
lished for talking Polish in ~
n their parents. But it is VoDhc
mr1tit1v details. Russian III Useless
,undsl in evidences that 1hs erature
Oh regards the scn e., average
a han a prison and tns sIs little
e t Sotter r than gaOleFa s sDes 'eacher as
oeteel correspond enSsa1aa spy