'PLAYING WITH EDUCATION’
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 6. New Zealand children were just playing with education, the Russian Ambassador (Mr B. Y. Dorofeev) told a Wellington Lions luncheon meeting yesterday.
He was asked whether too much pressure was placed on Russian pupils, allowing them too little time for “Huck Finn” activities.
“It is my impression your children are just playing with education,” said Mr Dorofeev. “After a fortnight at Wellington Boys’ College, my son found that the boys were behind him in several subjects and didn't know anything about a number of subjects.” One of Mr Dorofeev’s sons was at Wellington College for a few weeks to improve his English. Mr Dorofeev said that few New Zealanders knew much about Russia and those who
did know a little, had information which was 25 years old. Many fallacies about Russia were still commonly held to be true. He took the Lion* to task over a comment about Siberia.
“I can assure you,” he said, “that there are no salt mines in Siberia.” All salt used was scraped from the edges of salt lakes. Mr Dorofeev should know—he was born in Siberia.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31830, 7 November 1968, Page 22
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