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was similar to the practice of prestigious foreign universities.
But that's all. It represented nothing of higher values. The
sabbatical year, when the teacher goes on a self-development
leave after 7 years, was also unknown, and I could continue to
list the differences. I indicated that upon obtaining my diploma,
I got to know these doctrines in depth and exhaustively and
took enough exams from them, even state exams. I see the
details well and I don't get lost.
- But, it comes with a special leave of 31 days - was the
decisive argument - I think it had a hard effect in other cases.
However, I could not imagine taking out my previous
ideological books with my comments on the margins that
refuted theses. I don't take time off during the teaching period -
I answered, and it was true, during the 22 years I spent at the
university, I never once missed classes due to illness. In my
family, which has a teaching background, missing a lesson was
considered an offense against the profession. There's the
summer, it's the teacher's. There are also the two months. At the
university, however, we were practically free after May. Why
31 extra days off, I thought. My students are mine, there is no
need for replacements or substitution. So that there was
profound silence at the trial.
- You have a child in the university nursery, your wife works,
without further training I fear that you will not be able to stay at
the university for a long time - was the verdict of the staff. I
thought that by then I had blocked the ideas for joining the party
and my ideological further education in a nice quiet way - but,
forever writing myself off some list, I announced that I would
take Russian and German language exams, because I was
learning the languages. It was true - I learned German. "Well,
that's not enough," was the answer, a language teacher should
know more, was the answer, and they wrote that I would be
admitted to the university's correspondence course in Russian,
and I lived on that for seven or eight years: I had a program, but
I just didn't do it, they didn’t start a Russian correspondence

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