GYPSY SCHOOL
BUILT NEAR UZHOROD The most interesting school in Ruthenia is the gypsy school in Uzhorod, the only one of its kind in the world. Just outside Uzhorod there is a large gypsy camp, a complete selfcontained village with its own mayor, and there gypsies have built a school for their children. There are about 40 of them, gay, vivacious, lazy, extremely musical, and immediately bored. They are taught by special methods, with constant changes of subject—lo minutes
reading, five minutes singing, five minutes play, 10 minutes writing, 10 minutes dancing. (They have their choir, conducted by a little boy of nine, and their orchestra.) No one thing can hold their attention for longer than five to 10 minutes. Many of them are beautiful, though with a far from immature beauty, and their five-year-old faces are as gaudily rouged and painted as that of any street walker. It is scarcely surprising, one reflects, that the average life of a school teacher in Iluthonia is five years.
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Evening Star, Issue 22896, 2 March 1938, Page 13
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167GYPSY SCHOOL Evening Star, Issue 22896, 2 March 1938, Page 13
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