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The publication discusses the issues of early 20th century Lithuanian education, children's education and pedagogical ethics. Publisher - Felicija Bortkevičienė. The lead article "Crumbs about the School of the Past" was written by J. Kunabalietis. The text is not intended to condemn the old teachers and their faults, but for the younger generation of teachers, so that they do not follow the old paths... Quote: "A young teacher, a man full of energy, should, when he takes his place as a teacher, devote himself in body and spirit to his duties and fulfil them faithfully, but far from it. Many might say it is an isolated peculiarity, so unlikely. No, not a single one, not just dozens but hundreds. Examples of this are: teachers, having started their lessons at 9 o'clock in the morning, already at 10 o'clock, at the wave of a clerk or a boss or a peasant, slip out of the school and, in full view of the pupils, go to the inn, where they sit quietly behind a Jew's desk for about 4 hours, sometimes more. What do the children do in the meantime? It is well-known and obvious to all: they walk around with their heads instead of their feet, they growl, they shout in all sorts of voices, they mock those who pass by, they break each other's heads, they scratch each other's heads, they poke each other's eyes. Children playing without a teacher stir up dust inhumanly from all sides and corners of the school, and there are balls of smoke around the school. The sight frightens most of the calm inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who run out with buckets and other implements, thinking that the school has been engulfed in fire. The surrounding residents, unable to endure such a disorderly movement of students, dared to call the teacher. The teacher, when he is well pissed off, or at least pissed off at all, with the help of the clerks, the organist, the headmaster, rushes into the school. And it is difficult to express what is happening there. All these men are showing what they can do: which child is being asked to do a jandan, who sometimes gets cold, which one gets a line, his palms swell up like loaves of bread, his fingers go numb. Then comes the caning. [...] Then comes the hair-puffing, the ear-tearing, the screaming and the cursing of the teacher..."
