The image of a loser in Russian literature. A.P. Chekhov and education. Dedication to the modern loser. Who is Alexander Nevsky

Slide Good afternoon, dear jury, participants!

I present my work “The Image of a Loser in 20th Century Literature.”

The main works considered in the work are:

Slide “Vitya Maleev at school and at home” by N. Nosov,

“Barankin, be a man!” V. Medvedeva,

“In the land of unlearned lessons” by L. Geraskina,

B. Zakhoder’s cycle “On the back desk”,

“About one student and six units” and “The cat and the quitters” by S. Marshak,

“The Tale of Lost Time” by E. Schwartz,

L. Davydychev's story “The Life of Ivan Semenov”.

Slide The purpose of this work: consideration of the image of a loser in each workstudying the causes of poor academic performance..

The topic isrelevant in modern life. The practical significance is thatserious research topics “The image of a loser in Russian fiction”never met there is no critical literature.

In these works, the word “f” becomes the key word, and the motive of correcting school performance comes to the fore.

Slide Objectives of this work:

Explain the lexical meaning of the words “deuce”, “loser”;

Formulate the reasons for academic failure;

Consider the image of a loser in these works.

Conduct a sociological survey among classmates and teachers to find out what they think about this problem;

Study various sources containing information on the problem of student failure;

Object of study: the most popular texts of children's literature, the main one in which is a poor student, biographical facts from the lives of famous people.

Subject of study : the attitude of the protagonist of the text and the attitude of classmates to the problem raised.

Hypothesis: being a poor student is not a shame, and sometimes it’s an honor.

I believe that the gradual solution of the assigned tasks will lead to achieving the goal.

Slide Scientists identify several types of losers:

The lazy student constantly yawns, doesn’t even want to open his textbook, and endlessly looks at his watch. He's not interested.

Loser-hooligan. This type causes a lot of trouble for the entire school with his behavior.

A creative person is a common type of boy - not an excellent student, who invents various things, devices, tricks and jokes.

A pro is a poor student who looks like a classic excellent student, but he has a pathological A in literature and the same pathological B in mathematics.

Slide Losers can study well. They just need adequate help; writers, it seems, understand much better than teachers and parents what is going on in the heads and souls of poor students and how they can help them. (slide with characters)

Among these same “ignoramuses” there are rich and famous people whose success and perseverance everyone could envy. Giftedness does not always manifest itself in high academic performance.

As a child, the future genius Albert Einstein studied so poorly, but in 1921 he became a Nobel laureate.

Future great writers Alexander Herzen, Byron, Edgar Poe, Honore de Balzac, Nikolai Gogol were considered incapable students at school.

Isaac Newton was one of the most untalented at school, but decades later they began to say something different about him: “Never before has anything like this been created by the efforts of one person.”

Pushkin had completely unreadable handwriting; In addition, Alexander Sergeevich was unsuccessful in mathematics.

Thus, not all famous people have been successful in the past.

Slide I conducted a study among 5th grade students at the Goldyrev school and the school’s teaching staff.

It was revealed that 40% of students go to school without desire and study without the mood. 85% of respondents rarely or infrequently receive bad marks. 80% of respondents said that they were unfairly given bad grades. 20% of students believe that teachers' demands are too high. 100% noted that the reason for poor performance is laziness. To the question: “Why study well?” answered to get a good profession. And some would like to be teachers' pets.

Teachers were also asked to answer a number of questions. When asked whether you like to give twos, 70% answered that they give them as a last resort. The reasons for academic failure are laziness, lack of parental control, and impunity. Sooner or later the two will be “closed” with another grade. Teachers work with these students to improve their performance.

Thus, both teachers and students have their own attitude towards failing grades and failing students.

Slide The works under study allow us to conclude that in order to achieve success in any type of activity, you need to work. Poor losers cannot bring themselves to start working, their thoughts are scattered, their notebooks are decorated with blots, their desks are a mess. Everyone knows that success is 99% sweat and only 1% success.

But in the end they come to their senses on their own or with the help of magic. Only Semyon Pantalykin did not get a miracle: “For the second year I remain in the class. My father will pull me out, I won’t get a gun, my mother won’t write out “Around the World…”. And you can help them even without a miracle.

Success in life is not always related to academic performance, and often depends on a person’s personal qualities. An unusual train of thought, the ability to make choices and adapt to a new environment are all the steps of the ladder that leads to success.People are not born poorthey become.

Thus, being a poor student is not a shame, and sometimes even an honor. Geniuses grow out of losers!

Thus, the goal has been achieved, the tasks have been solved.

If a child has low grades in school, then he has every chance of becoming great! Agree, it sounds strange. But centuries-old history confirms that bad grades do not always become harbingers of an unsuccessful future. We know at least 15 great students who have become famous throughout the world thanks to their unique talents. We are not suggesting that you should be indifferent to your children's learning, but rather reminding them that failure in a subject does not mean that your child will not succeed in the future. So, we dare to use famous poor students as an example - we read, we are surprised, we remember!

Napoleon Bonaparte

When they talk about this brilliant commander, everyone remembers his significant ambitions, incommensurate with his small stature. But few people know that Napoleon was one of the worst students in his studies and loved only mathematics. But this was enough to achieve brilliant victories and lead to one of the most crushing defeats in the world. One conclusion can be drawn: to be a good strategist, it is enough to know mathematics.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven is one of the most performed composers in the world. He still has no equal in writing music. It is known that musical education was instilled in him in childhood - from an early age he studied playing the organ, violin and harpsichord. But there were serious problems with his studies - Ludwig was completely at odds with mathematics and writing. His story reminds us that often people who are talented in one area are completely unsuccessful in other areas. And really, why does a musician need mathematics?...

Alexander Pushkin

Many people know that the famous Russian poet was a poor student. Pushkin's biography has been studied very carefully, including his period of study at the gymnasium. Young Alexander knew absolutely nothing about mathematics and constantly received bad marks in this subject. However, this did not stop him from becoming the best in writing and making his name a symbol of classical Russian literature. Perhaps it is precisely because of such facts in the biographies of famous personalities that it is generally accepted that people in the humanities are simply not destined to understand mathematics.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

We remember Mayakovsky's poems from childhood. Already at the age of 11, a boy with a rebel nature got into a revolutionary circle, abandoned his lessons and dropped out of school in the 5th grade. The time he stayed at school was not easy for teachers - in his youth, the brilliant poet was a terrible tomboy. This character is reflected in literature - everyone knows Mayakovsky’s slightly harsh style with incredible energy. So, one more conclusion: bad behavior at school will also not be an obstacle to a great future.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is another genius who faced failure in school. But his example is worthy of respect: one day, after a classmate beat Isaac, the boy came up with a way to demonstrate his superiority - to show that you are smarter. It is known that the boy grew up as a very sick and weak child. And only when he became a leader in his studies was he able to surprise those around him with his extraordinary abilities.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is the most famous “loser” in the world. The parents of the famous scientist were very worried that Albert would not be hired even for the lowest paid job. It is worth noting that he was not a notorious poor student; Einstein’s everyday grades were C’s, with the exception of mathematics and Latin. In addition to low academic performance, the boy dared to argue with teachers, which was simply unacceptable at that time. The school certificate was obtained the second time, then Albert failed the exams at the Polytechnic, receiving bad marks in French and botany.

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky was an inveterate loser and a hooligan. He despised the Soviet school system, refused to answer in class with such pronounced condescension towards the teachers that his parents were not surprised at the bad grades. This behavior appeared already in the 5th grade. As he grew older, the young man did not betray himself - he skipped classes, received annual bad marks in physics, chemistry, mathematics and English. It’s hard to believe that after such behavior one can become a Nobel laureate in literature “for comprehensive creativity, imbued with clarity of thought and passion of poetry.”

Thomas Alva Edison

The famous inventor studied at school for only a short time; later his studies were replaced by home studies under the care of his mother. But even during that short period at school, the boy managed to receive very negative assessments of his knowledge - one of the teachers constantly called Thomas a “brainless idiot.” During the first month of training, he became a complete failure and his parents were called to school, saying that he was mentally retarded. After this, the family decided to study at home. For the boy, studying at home was a relief. The most important thing that his mother taught him was reading. And books and his own experience became his best teachers throughout his life.

Honore de Balzac

Honoré had a very difficult relationship with his mother; he lived in a boarding school and practically did not see his family. Disappointed with everything, he decided that there was no point in trying hard in his studies and was absolutely indifferent to his studies. During lessons, he looked out the window, did not pay attention to the teachers’ lectures, and answered all questions incomprehensibly. As punishment, his teachers sent him to a cold closet under the stairs so that he could think about his behavior. This happened so often that soon Honore even fell in love with this opportunity for solitude. Who knows, maybe this is what influenced the creative activity of the famous French writer.

Winston Churchill

The famous statesman was considered one of the stupidest students in his class. Due to poor academic performance, Winston was even suspended from studying Latin and Ancient Greek. One of the reasons for the low grades is the boy’s absolute reluctance to attend classes. “School has nothing to do with education. This is an institution of control, where children are instilled with basic social skills” - these words of Churchill convey his attitude about the school. If the teachers had known that in the future Winston would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, no one would have believed it - it was so difficult to study with him.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The brilliant designer and inventor Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was also doomed to fail at school. The main reason for low ratings is health problems. Due to hearing loss, which manifested itself as a consequence of scarlet fever, lectures were very difficult for the boy. Do not rush to feel sorry for this child - despite these difficulties, Konstantin loved to misbehave and undermine the educational spirit during classes. At the age of 13, the student had to stay for the second year, and later he was expected to be expelled for poor academic performance. It was difficult to imagine that in the future this boy would become the father of theoretical astronautics.

Bill Gates

One of the richest people on the planet, Bill Gates, was also a loser! His parents did everything they could to change his attitude towards studying - once they even offered to pay the boy for every A grade. However, this could not be Bill's motivation: the only thing that attracted him was books. Interestingly, science fiction works accessible to every reader inspired Gates to make great discoveries.

Lev Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy studied with governesses at home. He was not familiar with criticism and restrictions - the boy was constantly given concessions and indulgences. Naturally, with such an attitude, Leo did not want to study at all - why, if you can do other, more interesting things, and there will be little demand from you. At the university, Tolstoy remained in the second year because of bad marks in history and German, and from the second year he dropped out of his own free will. The writer never received an education diploma, which did not become an obstacle to his implementation in the literary field.

Dmitriy Mendeleev

Dmitry Mendeleev was a notorious hooligan: he often fought with his peers, constantly skipped classes and was insolent to teachers. He practically did not do his homework and constantly lied to his mother about his grades. Such behavior could only be stopped by something out of the ordinary, and that’s what happened. Only when faced with the threat of expulsion from the gymnasium did Mendeleev come to his senses. His friends, brilliantly educated Decembrists, helped him. And after some time, the future scientist came to his senses and improved all his subjects, improving his certificate.

Anton Chekhov

It is simply impossible to imagine that the most intelligent of Russian writers stayed in school for a second year twice. But poor grades in arithmetic, geography and Greek took their toll. And the most interesting thing is that in Russian literature he never had grades higher than four! The writer's talent manifested itself already at the university, when, upon entering the medical faculty, Chekhov began writing stories and discovered himself in a completely new capacity.

Plan:

1 Term
2 Classification of poor students
3 Reasons for failure
- 3.1 Social reasons
- 3.2 Heredity
- 3.3 Diseases leading to exclusion from the educational process
4 Statistics
5 Methods of influencing poor students
6 Losers in the higher education system
7 Attitude towards poor students
8 The image of a loser in culture
- 8.1 Literature
- 8.2 Painting
- 8.3 Cinematography
- 8.4 Jokes

Introduction

A typical sign of a poor student is frequent failures in the diary.

Loser- an underachieving student of a school, technical school or university who has at least one or more academic subjects passed with an “unsatisfactory” grade. A grade of two (according to a 5-point knowledge assessment system) is given for failure to complete an educational task. In order to continue their education, a poor student is often forced to repeat the course again in the next academic year (for school) and thus he becomes a repeat student, or retake the additional exam. sessions if he studies at a technical school or university.

The term “failing student” is common in the territory of the former USSR, since the rating “unsatisfactory” corresponded to a rating of “2” on a five-point system.

1. Term

Ushakov's dictionary refers to the term poor student to slang and considers it outdated. Nevertheless, this term is widely used both in everyday life and in scientific articles devoted to psychology and pedagogy.

The socio-psychological aspects of teaching underachievers (low-grade students) have received a lot of attention in science and journalism. In most scientific works on this topic, instead of the word poor student term used underachievement. Some scientists consider it more correct to use the term in relation to a poor student failure.

Sometimes the term “loser” is used in a figurative sense: this is the name given to people or objects that are significantly behind others in some respects.

2. Classification of poor students

In pedagogy, various types of underachieving students are distinguished. The classification features are the student’s attitude to learning and the quality of the student’s mental activity.

3. Reasons for failure

The reasons why students become underachieving students are quite varied.

3.1. Social reasons

The social environment in which the student is brought up. Most often, children from disadvantaged families become poor students.
Low standard of living of parents. Parents are forced to devote all their time to earning a living, and they have no time left to raise and educate their own children.
Difficult socio-psychological situation in school, class, negative attitude from teachers.
Features of home education. Children who were allowed everything at home cannot adapt to school discipline.
Systematic absenteeism.
Laziness. The most common cause of laziness, according to Ushinsky, is “a direct aversion to the activities that adults encourage the child to do.”
Lack of possibility of an individual approach to the student’s personality.)
Rude attitude towards a student: most often, by unloving teachers or

evil mothers who most likely do not like their children (most often sons). This prevents students from studying normally.

3.2. Heredity

Congenital (unfavorable heredity, congenital inability for mental work) or acquired diseases
Slowness caused by personality traits, or developmental delays, or other factors. Such students are sometimes called insulting names slow-witted.
Excessive timidity, shyness, lack of self-confidence.
Non-standard. This group may also include child prodigies who, for various reasons, drop out of the learning process.

3.3. Diseases leading to exclusion from the educational process

Developmental lag from peers. These students find it difficult to meet the expectations of the “average” student.
Poor health. Chronic diseases, visual impairment, and diseases of the central nervous system make it difficult for a student to adapt to school and reduce motivation to improve academic performance. Vitamin deficiency may be the cause of poor grades.

4. Statistics

Data from sociological studies in Russia show that male students become poor students almost 3 times more often than female students (see table).

According to the same studies, poor students most often become children of parents who have received incomplete secondary or only primary education. 24% of children of parents with incomplete secondary education or less, 19% of children of parents with secondary education, 7% of children of parents with higher education become poor students.

5. Methods of influencing poor students

Methods of influencing poor students include calling their parents to school and expelling them for poor performance.

To improve the performance of poor students, they can also arrange additional classes for them and assign successful students to them. In Russia, this practice was characteristic mainly of Soviet times.

In pedagogy, methodological approaches are being developed that take into account the individual characteristics, interests and abilities of students and allow everyone to study well. Their implementation requires special efforts on the part of the teacher, constant attention, and a personal approach to such a student. In Russia, the implementation of such approaches is not being implemented sufficiently.

Sometimes campaigns to increase the level of academic performance and eliminate such a category as poor students are carried out at the level of government programs - for example, the well-known “No child left behind” program in the USA. As part of the program, schools are required to provide tutors for poor students.

6. Losers in the higher education system

Losers [ ] take the exam

It is assumed that poor students should not study in a higher educational institution. In Russia, applicants who receive an unsatisfactory grade on the entrance exam are not allowed to take further entrance exams. If a student of a higher educational institution receives an “unsatisfactory” grade during the examination session, he is obliged to retake this exam as soon as possible. With three “unsatisfactory” grades, the student is expelled from the higher education institution with the wording “for academic failure.” Students who receive a bad mark on a state exam or the defense of their final qualifying work do not receive a diploma of higher education. However, they have the opportunity to retake the final certification tests within a period of no less than 3 months and no more than 5 years.

7. Attitude towards poor students

Society's attitude towards poor students is generally negative; some consider them outcasts. Often the lifestyle of a loser is associated with drinking alcohol, smoking and using drugs.

In addition, some teachers believe that poor students in the class are necessary for the full development of students in the entire class.

8. The image of a loser in culture

8.1. Literature

Often meets. Soviet literature was characterized by the image of a “corrected loser.”

Loser student Vitya Perestukin is the main character of Geraskina L.’s fairy tale “In the Land of Unlearned Lessons.”
In the story of the Soviet writer Evgeniy Schwartz “The Tale of Lost Time,” failed students turn into old people.
Loser Barankin is the main character of Valery Medvedev’s book “Barankin, be a man!”
Vitya Maleev and Kostya Shishkin are the main characters of Nikolai Nosov’s book “Vitya Maleev at school and at home.”
The book by Russian writer Arthur Givargizov is called “Notes of an Outstanding Loser.”

8.2. Painting

Painting by Fyodor Reshetnikov “Deuce again?”

8.3. Cinema

The poor student is a common type in cinema, cartoons and anime:

The poor student Ganzha is one of the main characters of the Soviet television series “Big Change”.
Kolya, a poor student, is one of the main characters in the Soviet cartoon by Boris Stepantsev and Evgeniy Raikovsky, “Deuce Again.”
Loser Noboru Yoshikawa is one of the heroes of the anime series “Cool Teacher Onizuka”
Loser Anapka from Moscow is one of the heroes of the Russian cartoon "Cat and Bath"

8.4. Jokes

Losers, like excellent students, often become the heroes of school and student jokes. For example:

How are you doing at school, son?
- I don’t talk to the father of a poor student!

Notes

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In fact, we are not divided into whites and blacks, men and women, or Jews and anti-Semites. We are divided into excellent students and poor students. And the class struggle has been going on between us for centuries.

Excellent students get up early, and not always because they are early risers. They get up early because they have to. If they don't happen to have to get up early, they get up late. It's late - it's ten in the morning. Okay, at eleven. The very end is at twelve, with the words “how long can you sleep.” Excellent students generally tend to ask themselves and those around them rhetorical questions. For example, “when, if not today, will I do this?”, “how long can your idleness continue?” and “don’t you understand that...”. "Do not you understand?" - a key question for excellent students. They don't understand how you can not understand.

Losers don't understand.

Excellent students work in systems. It's important to them. At the same time, it is important for them to be valued in the system where they work. If they are not valued in the system where they work, high achievers look for a new system. The greatest reward for an excellent student is when the system did not value them at first, but now does. The worst punishment is to fail in the eyes of the system. If you ask an excellent student “who are you,” he will honestly answer: “technological engineer.”

If you ask “who are you” to a poor student, he will answer “Vasya.”

The main reason for all the actions of an excellent student is the conviction that this is how it should be. You need to study well, you need to get good grades in exams, you need to find a good job (how could it be otherwise?), and from this good job you need to make a career, because you need to make a career. Yes, for the same reason they wash dirty dishes.

Losers also wash dirty dishes. When the clean one runs out.

Primary stratification occurs at school. An excellent student is easy to recognize, and not at all by his glasses or his smart face. An excellent student is one who does his homework. Every day. He comes home after school, changes into home clothes, heats up lunch, eats dinner, and sits down. Some excellent students are quick and easy, so he sits down for half an hour, and in half an hour everything is ready. Another excellent student is thorough and persistent, so his homework takes the whole evening. There are even those who do Lessons every day for the Day After Tomorrow - but this is a special category of humanity, and we are not talking about them now.

Having done his homework, the excellent student smiles and stretches. If he is a True Excellent Student, he can also collect a briefcase after this. However, this is not necessary - I knew one real excellent student, for whom his mother collected his school bag for all ten school years.

Now quickly raise your hand, those who regularly scribbled home math on the windowsill in the toilet opposite the chemistry room on the fifth floor. Everything is clear with you. You probably still remember that for average homework you need a regular break (ten minutes) in the fifth grade, and a long break (twenty) in the eighth. What? Not “scribbled”, but “blown away”? You yourself were "blown away". To calmly copy an assignment in any subject, no change is needed. Need the last desk and biology lesson. Literature is possible.

But deflating is kindergarten. The aerobatics of a poor student is to do the homework yourself, and in the very lesson for which it is assigned. It is advisable to sit not on the last, but on the first desk. Do it brilliantly, creatively, with a twist and, having done it, immediately volunteer to answer. Answer in such a way that the teacher will cry with delight, receive a legitimate A with a bow and, sitting down, finally delve into reading the second volume of Oswald Spengler’s work “The Decline of Europe.” For the sake of which it was necessary to answer voluntarily, so that later they would not pull. Only a true, deep, I’m not afraid of this word, spiritual loser is capable of this. Who, in general, doesn’t care what to do, as long as it’s interesting and doesn’t bother him. Unfortunately, the combination of “interesting” and “didn’t bother” is rare at school (and in life), so for the sake of their meaning in life, a poor student has to work much harder than an excellent student. If he is, of course, hardworking enough to do it.

Grades don't tell us anything. On the “Pride of the School” board there are a mix of portraits of excellent students and portraits of poor students. The latter have no less high grades, certificates of merit and victories at physics and mathematics Olympiads, while among the former there are a lot of gloomy averages. It's not about the points, it's about the approach.

Excellent student for any
- For what?
answers
- Necessary!

Loser for any
- Necessary!
answers
- For what?

At the end of school, excellent students and poor students move on to a big life. It’s easy for excellent students there; the word “must” leads them along. It’s more difficult for poor students: they have to think with all their might how to get out without sacrificing anything. Losers don't like to compromise. This is, perhaps, the second significant difference between the two classes: an excellent student firmly knows what needs and must be sacrificed in order to achieve what must be achieved. The loser is absolutely sure that there is no point in sacrificing anything, so he only sacrifices what is not important to him. A lot of things don't matter to him. Actually, it is still important for him solely that it is interesting and not particularly tugged at. The word “especially” reveals the final concession that the poor student makes to society.

An excellent worker works like a plow: he plows evenly, leaving behind a deep furrow.
The loser works like an explosion. Empty, empty, empty, poker.

Both excellent and poor students can be talented. Both poor students and excellent students can be brilliant. Brilliant excellent students make millionaires and presidents of corporations, and brilliant poor students make writers, poets, programmers, engineers and other creative salt of the earth, not burdened by excessive socialization.

Normal, capable, excellent students turn out to be good specialists with decent salaries. Normal, capable losers turn out to be people of liberal professions who work for themselves and receive either a grand a day or a fig a month. In addition, any system regularly feeds a fairly large number of poor students, who from time to time come up with more or less brilliant ideas, for which they are forgiven through clenched teeth for constant delays, vacations at the most inopportune moments and the continuous deaths of beloved relatives the rest of the time.

Unsuccessful excellent students still turn out to be good specialists with a normal salary - simply because there are no absolutely unsuccessful excellent students. Excellent students are designed this way: they are unable to perform poorly.
But no one knows what comes out of unsuccessful students. Because who among the proud losers admits even to himself that he is the one who is unsuccessful?

The two classes, as expected, experience class hatred towards each other. Excellent students consider poor students to be lucky slackers who receive gifts from life for their beautiful eyes. If, at the same time, a particular poor student is at least unsuccessful in the area that seems most important to an excellent student (say, he constantly has no money, because he is not ready to work in the system, or he is deprived of his personal life, because who would go for such happiness) , excellent students are ready to treat him leniently. But if a poor student lives as he sees fit, works as he likes, has a lot of money for it and is happily in love - any excellent student will experience legitimate indignation at the sight of him. It is best for a poor student to be a drunkard - then the excellent students will love him. Because they themselves, of course, never.

Loser students, for their part, are convinced that excellent students are primitive bores who do not know how to get up without an alarm clock and live without orders. Their attitude can be softened, for example, by the obvious disgust of an excellent student for his own work. Or a slight clinical depression, or even better - a nervous breakdown. Or at least the awareness of the excellent student of the poverty of his drab path before the peaks of the mountain path of the free poor student. If an excellent student is busy with an important and interesting job, earns a lot of money, is healthy and for the life of him does not understand how his life is worse than the life of Van Gogh without ears - the proud bird of a poor student will despise him. This contempt is akin to that which is showered on a freckled boy with a hole in his pants and fingers in ink on a neat boy with bangs and a handkerchief.

But the one with freckles can run through puddles and kick cans. But this one with the bangs is constantly being held up as an example to him. Deep down, both classes vaguely envy each other - because the other side can do something that this one can’t.
An excellent student knows for sure that there should be food in the house, food in the refrigerator, and the floors in the apartment should be washed at least once a week.
The two-student believes that there should be equality between men and women. Equality is expressed in the fact that she marries him, and he does everything else for her.
An excellent student has children because she is a woman, raises them because she is a mother, and helps her parents because she is a daughter.
A poor student has children because she wonders what kind of faces they will have, doesn’t raise them at all, because that will do, and helps her parents, because otherwise they won’t lag behind.
An excellent student will never let her husband go to work in a dirty shirt.
The poor student does not consider it necessary to check whether he is wearing a shirt at all.
An excellent student would rather hang herself than serve her family sausages for dinner.
A poor student would rather hang herself than think about dinner.
Yes, and excellent students can iron. Lingerie. Iron. Losers, as a rule, believe that “clean” means “beautiful”, and most often stroke bare skin. By hand. However, excellent students can also do this - when they find time free from work.

But the excellent student monitors fashion, her figure, excess weight and the reputation of her family.
But the poor student does not know that the word “orgasms” exists in the singular.

It would be logical to assume that inter-class marriages almost never happen, but this is not the case. Loser students often love excellent students - because there is order in the house and without question it is clear who the damn creative person in our couple is. Excellent students sometimes fall in love with poor students - because washing socks is not a great art, but not everyone knows how to smile so sincerely, asking “darling, what are we having for dinner?”

Of course, ideal couples are created. Two excellent students living together can reach unprecedented career heights, earn millions, build a huge house and raise a bunch of rosy-cheeked children. And two lovers in love are able to invent a perpetual motion machine, build an airplane out of it and fly off somewhere to such and such a mother and everyone’s satisfaction.

But two excellent students are often unbearably bored with each other.
And a couple of poor students will be covered in mud up to their ears and die of hunger, because not one of them will agree to get up early to go and get a patent for a perpetual motion machine. More precisely, one will agree, but will oversleep. And the second one will promise to wake him up, but will forget.

Do you think I'm exaggerating?

Well, yes. I think so myself.

But try to remember what time you got up yesterday. And who was lying next to you? And what did he do? And what did you think of him?

And why didn't you tell him this?

Comrades, adults, don’t you want to have some fun? What if you were serious as a child, excellent students, round, or maybe square? Suddenly you missed something very important, very important, your childhood passed, and you still didn’t get up on your desk in the middle of the lesson and didn’t crow, and didn’t sing at 8:27 in the morning under the school windows, exercise No. 43, and then exercises No. 44, 45 , 46, presentation, dictation and finally - an essay on the topic “The image of a loser in the fiction of the second half of the twentieth century,” and then the multiplication table, Mendeleev and the structure of the cell. And in the bathroom they didn’t arrange the ninth wave, and by an effort of will they didn’t raise the temperature on the thermometer to 39? What do you mean why? To avoid going to school. After all, the teachers there force you to repeat what you don’t believe in.

“Listen, Seryozha,” the physics teacher once said, “I’m not an animal.” If you know anything in physics, tell me, I’ll give you an A.
- What can I say? - asked Seryozha.
- Well, for example, that gravity acts on all bodies. Tell. Well, come on... repeat. For all bodies...
“I can’t,” Seryozha muttered. “I can’t repeat what I don’t believe in.”
- What do you believe in?! — the teacher shouted?
“I believe in goblin, in Baba Yaga, in Koshchei the Immortal, in Ereke-Diereke, in flying desks,” Seryozha said calmly.
After which his desk rose above the floor and flew towards the exit.
“Sit down, Gavrilov,” said the physics teacher, “two!”

So how can you go to school after that?! It’s better to read about school life “Notes of an Outstanding Loser” by Arthur Givargizov and get imbued with his sparkling humor, like lemonade in a glass, a little prickly, but sweet and kind as a hedgehog irony, laugh at children’s antics, which are nothing more than a child’s rebellion against forgetfulness adults. Yes, yes, adults sometimes forget the fact that they themselves were children, becoming too boring, preoccupied and completely distant from their beloved children. Only grandfather understands the lonely child's soul:

- Grandfather, what is old age? - Kolya once asked.
“It’s just like childhood,” answered the grandfather, spraying Kolya with a water pistol, “only my lower back hurts.”
- Enough! - Kolya got angry and took the gun from his grandfather. - Let's build a garage instead.
“Come on,” grandfather agreed: he didn’t care what to play. — When I was little, I didn’t have plastic lightweight blocks, and I built everything from bricks.
- Great! - Kolya admired. “Your parents probably praised you for this.”
“No,” grandfather sighed, “they scolded me.” They said that the ceilings were low, the hallway was small, the bathroom was combined, linoleum, the wallpaper needed to be re-glued, the staircase to the second floor was narrow, the frames did not fit well...
“Yeah, yeah,” Kolya shook his head, “I understand you, you can’t please your parents.”
“You won’t please,” grandfather agreed, grabbed a water pistol and shot at Kolya.

In order not to become beech parents, picky parents and not to become sour in everyday life, it is recommended to read the prose of Arthur Givargizov every day with your school-age daughters and sons. This writer can be trusted: as a guitar teacher, he knows school life from the inside. It is advisable to put aside skepticism, not look for logic, but relax, immerse yourself in the absurd, laugh, joke and draw wise conclusions. Short stories about the school everyday life of ordinary boys and girls, their parents and teachers have an amazing multi-dimensionality. Understandable and funny for children, they can open up to a thoughtful parent in all their depth. The author, in a brief form, like a graphic artist, uses strokes to create an extraordinary illustration of life, in which you want to look at familiar phenomena from different angles, fantasize and, perhaps, even take off your blinders, look at reality in a new way, more joyfully, optimistically, leaving space jokes and fun.