Pedagogics and the School of Michael Schetinin

The unique boarding school of Michael Schetinin in Russia is an organic complex of primary and secondary education with an expressively spiritual conception of education. Essential features of education include: national cultural orientation, holistic concept of the man and the world; moral-spiritual self-development; absorption in cognition; practical labor activities; daily artistic activities; physical efficiency. Meeting, human relations, intercommunity help to determine teaching style in educational work groups of diverse age (there are no classes). Concentrated learning is focused on one field (subject) until the secondary school level is obtained (there are no lessons). Pupils play teacher’s roles along with their educators. Most pupils attend or graduate a co-operating university at the same time.