Now very few who remember why the Americans are interested in the Soviet system of upbringing and education of children. It all began with the publication of the classic work of American Urio Bronfenbrennera "Two worlds, two childhood in the early seventies of last century. It is believed that it was conducted the first systematic comparison of our system of education. The reason for the unrest and suspicion, that the American educational system gives poor results, served as the Soviet achievements in space exploration, including launching our first satellite. More than half of Americans believed that the satellite launch blow to the prestige and greatness States.

The popular magazine «Life» in 1964, under surveillance by two students sixteen years - the Soviet and American Alex Kutskovym Steven Lapekasom. During the month of the guys just followed on the heels of comparing a set of subjects studied at school, their attitudes to studies and books that they read, and what guys do in your spare time. The results shocked America: the Soviet boy outpaced its peers in terms of education for two years! Interestingly, the later life of participants in the experiment was associated with service in the air - Steve became a pilot, and Alex was selected as a cosmonaut (though the space he did not fly).

I have always wondered what happens to the benefits of our children in education when they grow up? " Why are we so smart and unhappy? Soviet school, as I see it, gave a well-trained intellect, but depending on group identity, Western same school develops self-reliance and independence of the individual child, but does not give the fundamental knowledge, abilities for a long and strenuous intellectual work. These qualities are formed only later, in universities. The experience of our school competitions shows that we can "pinch", and then the winner for the second year at the university already out of steam and never show brilliant results. This relation of intelligence and personality (the more the intellect, the less personality) was called the Kolmogorov law - on behalf of the founder of a network of physical and mathematical school in Soviet times.

In the Soviet school system will have paid a special place, not just the intellect. Force of personality - not the number of the benefits and attractions that a person can absorb, but the number of those services on which a person can not refuse. Yet Christianity has offered us a penance, self-restraint as the primary method of self-identity, able to say "no" to ourselves and the world. In addition, the foundation of personal development must be empathy, the ability to empathize with another. One method of achieving empathy - training in multiple languages.

Systematic studies of intelligence show that bilinguals have greater creativity (increased ability to find original solutions to problems), as well as cultural sensory (sensitivity), ability to understand other cultures and worlds. Thus, the study of at least two languages in order of increasing cognitive capacity of man. Thus, an alternative to the traditional system of education (in the "noble" or "proletarian" option) should be the practice of cooperation and communication with children. The paradox is that today's children educate adults who have nothing to say to their children. We ourselves sometimes do not know how to live.