Education: Best Schoolmaster

The Soviet Commissariat for Public Instruction has set out to find the best schoolmaster in Russia. Accordingly it has designed an examination of which the most important feature would seem to be reports to be submitted by all Russian schools dealing with the personal, pedagogical, cultural and political capacities of each individual. The winners of this adapted army efficiency test will receive prizes as follows, in addition to the somewhat embarrassing distinction of having their names engraved upon red tablets of honor. First Prize — One overcoat, one suit of clothes, one pair of...

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