: Private lessons

Private lessons are a kind of echo of the profession. Suppose a person gave 10-15 years to teaching, and in these years he did not deny himself anything: schools, universities, preparatory courses, visiting seminars, and summer studios. And then gradually flowed into other areas. Experience shows that if there is some kind of load, then rather private lessons. They are relatively more profitable and mobile in time, and do not imply a background fuss and gam in the ears, as especially a school and partly a university. Still - with a request for private lessons, good acquaintances sometimes apply. It is a sin to refuse.

If, in addition, some little things are added up, a private lesson resembles either a parody of work or work in paradise. To talk about what you know well is easy and pleasant. Explain - too, especially when you do not have to convince. In an ideal situation, a private lesson does not take strength at all, but only gives. This, in principle, applies to almost any normal work; The specifics of private lessons is that the ideal situation is often achievable. Statistically, approximately two out of three lessons are perfect.

Of course, more convenient when students come to you. But personally, it’s more interesting for me to travel around Moscow. Over the years, addresses accumulate (there are a lot of significant reasons for traveling, in addition to private lessons) - and rhymes begin to occur. About 20 years ago there were things literally in a neighboring house or courtyard. A different appears through the era with pale contours. Andrei Bitov wrote about this, and Volodin founded the plot of “five evenings” on such a rhyme.

Once I happened to the mother of a new student to recognize (not immediately) a former classmate. The situation is so characteristic of the new Russian cinema that in life it looked like plagiarism.

I am still not a real tutor, but an amateur. But from the point where I am, the position of this tutor is clearly visible. This is an excess: orders, demand, let's say directly - and money too. This is a work with which the boss cannot fire you (because he is not). In general, well -distributed, facet work. Free - his own master. And most often the first half of the day is not busy - simply because the students are loaded with other matters. If you want - sleep, if you want - write a symphony or picture.

There are no serious costs. Well, the most significant - you organized the day where the lesson is one of the links, approximately adjusted the routes, and take the lesson and cancel. Well, I got into the boulevards, hung in a cafe. As they say, we would have your problems.

Typical situations

As a rule, no one takes lessons to increase the assessment from 3 to 4. Either it is necessary to build a “UD” based on complete inadequate, or already - polish knowledge and skills up to 5, rather even up to 5+. Behind the local task, a life goal is squealing. For those who do not intend to do this in the future, to hand over and forget. Inside the profession, there is no other assessment, except 5.

No, really. Do you agree that the appendix be deleted by the surgeon who had 4 on the appendix 4? Personally, this assessment strains me and leads to ominous thoughts. What is - to put an enema with one error? If the bus driver has some gaps in the tops of the brake and left turn, I better go by the subway.

From the fact that the loser is set 3, the world does not collapse. Moreover, this can happen completely legally - well, guessed. That is, you can successfully release from the Secondary Moscow Institute with two years of higher mathematics, without distinguishing a cosine sinus. Yes, what is there ... Once I was addressed by three signs with a request to train them to take a derivative. The matter is not more complicated by boiling borsch, but something did not go. At the second hour of class, I realized that the rupture of the lines is much deeper than the place that we build. And here, in the end, the equation that the girls could not solve the three of them:

2 x = 6.

More precisely, they decided it for 7-8 minutes by selection. Here to complain to our secondary and higher education, but I will not. It’s just that even according to the protocol there is no such abyss of ignorance that would not have accommodated in (honest!) Assessment 3. Imagine an exam on history or geography, where the ticket is 2 issues. The second student somehow answers between 3 and 4. The first is a solid 2. As a result, he receives 3, is transferred to the next course, receives a diploma. Now imagine what could be in the first question.

Who won the Second World War?

The capital of the Russian Federation.

What form does the Earth have?

In general, in order to study at a regular school in mathematics at 3, one does not need to be particularly understood in mathematics. This is the level of common sense and elementary logic. Finding an apartment of the tutor at a given address is much more complicated than those that the guy “cannot solve”.

In general, there is a psychological conflict - most often with a teacher; Sometimes - with the whole "adult" world. Often - I do not want to humiliately swim at the board in front of friends and friends, catching my 3, it is easier to arrog the arrogantly in the spirit of Pechorin. In short, here you have a small play, which was played about ten times in my eyes with depressing stability.

Dad goes to a new family. Everything is civilized; Son-senior son was explained that there are no former children, contact was maintained, relations between the former spouses are even. Yes, only the boy switches to deuces in a pair of objects. The teacher signals mom. Mom is happy to hire a tutor. Dad pays with pleasure, drowning out guilt. The tutor is happy to do for good money homework “with X”, which classmates of our hero easily do for free. The teacher with pleasure puts the boy 3-especially if his protest sentiments are not categorical, he will do some kind of crumbs of knowledge. He himself with pleasure sees that the world is slightly bending under its indifference and laziness. In general, a rare situation when everyone can warm up joy by the fireplace.

I prefer not to take part in such holidays - and rather for aesthetic reasons than for moral. I am not a psychologist and not an actor; In addition to the financial component, there should be the actual training. The customer is responsible for motivation. They may object to me that the student’s motivation is included in the art of the teacher. Probably ... But this still applies to collective events than private lessons.

Motivation is where from 5 to 5+. What is characteristic - it is not limited to pragmatics. Do you want to see how this and that happen? This is not included in the school course, in the exam, even in the Olympics, you will not be asked about it, it’s just interesting, well, for a general understanding. In almost 100% of cases - yes, he wants. At some point, the issues of receipt go into the background, the first is the internal logic and beauty of the subject.

What is changing

Mathematics is deeply conservative. Therefore, against her background, it is clearly visible that it really changes over the past quarter century.

Suppose, not the main thing, but the first thing that catches your eye: a lot of beautiful, well -groomed, we can say - shining apartments. But more interesting, of course, how the image of a teenager itself changes.

They - both boys and girls - are better dressed, less angular, old -looking. They communicate much better with an adult, instantly understand and pick up a joke. They have a calm opinion on many issues, and where they do not have, calmly relate to the fact that they have not yet.

They a little reminiscent of American high school students from generalized Hollywood reality - but not jubilant stupidity and sexual concern, but some household independence. They were not imposed on some models of the inner system, whether it was Timur or Pavka, but only offered: turning the head, hairstyle, gesture. I think this form of influence is healthier - and the result is better.

If you limit yourself to four adjectives, they are: normal, different, interesting, free. Naturally, we are talking about statistical generalizations noticeable by eye