Russian Classeooms: Guest Speakers


Figure 1.--Here we see some selected Russian primary children, for some reason mostly boys, prepared to greet visitors to the school. You can tell they were given careful instructions preparing them. Wearing white knee socks was common for the girls, but the boys usually did it only for special occassions. The photograph is undated, but looks like the 1970s. There are Russian grammar posters on the wall.

It was a common practice in Soviet schools and kindergartens (and it is still common in modern Russia, too) to invite famous or just interesting people to talk to classroom groups. They included soldiers, sailors, musiciants, workers and so on. A Russian reader tells us, "I remember the father of one girl in our class was a pilot. The teacher asked him to come and to tell us about the pilot profession." A good example is a primary class in the 1970s where two soldiers gave a talk. Some times a number of guest speakers were invited to a school on the same day to speak to the various classes. A really important individual might speak to the whole school, but usually these were classroom visits. This provided for closer contact and chances to ask questions.






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