Yekaterinburg, 29 August 2008 (Information Agency of the Yekaterinburg Diocese):
The girl’s orphanage at the Novo-Tikhvin Convent is preparing for the new school year. The girls eagerly await the beginning of the school year, for they not only receive the usual general education, but, they also get music lessons. The classes follow those of an ordinary school, but, they take place on the convent grounds. There is one difference, instead of classes in gymnastics twice a week; the students receive lessons in choreography. In addition, the girls are taught by master musicians, getting classes in solfeggio, lessons on the piano, and choral singing.
Everything that is necessary for the pupils is provided; the schoolrooms have utilitarian but beautiful furniture made to special order for each student. The desks shall “grow” together with the girls. Every girl of school-age at the orphanage receives a bright and colourful knapsack, textbooks, pens and other materials, and notebooks.
The first-class shall study reading and writing, the older girls shall study mathematics, history, Russian literature, and natural sciences. The “elders” of the schoolgirls have studied for some years and have learned patience and diligence. They feel very “adult” and they have a thirst and zest for learning.
The Day of Knowledge (Russian term for the first day of school, traditionally on 1 September, unless that date falls on a Saturday or Sunday: editor’s note) shall start with a molieben at the church of St Yelizaveta. The girls shall greet the trustees of the orphanage, the clergy, and the sisterhood of the convent. The girls shall have a holiday reception in the morning, and they shall receive gifts.
Pravoslavnaya Gazeta Yekaterinburg (Orthodox Newspaper of Yekaterinburg)
http://orthodox.etel.ru/2008/33/29/29priut.htm (in Russian)
Editor’s Note:
In Russia, the students still stand in respect when the instructor enters the room. That is why Orthodox Russia is going to defeat the secular humanists of the USA. Our teachers are treated with rude disrespect and it is the TEACHER who gets in trouble if they complain of it (especially if the culprit is from a “mascot group”). I confide that most Americans would prefer the Russian method to the secularist humanist method (I told you that ordinary Russians and Americans had much in common!). In fact, most Americans would like prayer in school, too, just like in many Russian schools.
Isn’t that ironic… Russia is where God is mentioned in school and America is where He is banned and often mocked… the worm turns…
