Wine and the most advanced system of higher education

From Oxford I connect two things: a circle with the arms of colleges, a gift from friend and unfailing respect for there the education system. At the core of which – the student self-determination. Sam is a program and you dig yourself knowledge – individually in consultation with the major, the oversight personally to you, scientists.

This is a system of individual mentoring from the beginning, not the fifth year, as we have. Communication between teachers and students is enshrined in many university ceremonies, such as a common meal of professors and students who are held by candlelight, accompanied by a prayer in Latin, and which operates a strict dress code. In some colleges it – nightly ritual, in others – only on special occasions. Naturally, the drink of those dinners – wine. Wine cellars college. Here’s how it works:

Virtually every college (and they in Oxford – 38, and in Cambridge – 31) has its own wine cellar, where wine is kept for “educational purposes” (dinners, receptions, festivals) and who is responsible for Wine Steward – the position to which appointed a of teachers. On behalf of the college he attends and selects the wine tasting, which will be purchased by the college and laid into the cellar. In 1997 the manager of the cellar in the College of St. Cross was Paul Barton Rainey, professor of evolutionary genetics from New Zealand. As he recalls in his article, his predecessor had met him with the words:

One of the richest collections of wine gathered at Trinity College – College, where he studied Byron. Its total cost – about 3x million pounds

“It is gratifying to see someone willing to donate his liver College” – and advised to ingest only tasting the wine, which cost more than ten pounds.

purposes” (dinners, receptions, festivals) and who is responsible for Wine Steward – the position to which appointed a of teachers. On behalf of the college he attends and selects the wine tasting, which will be purchased by the college and laid into the cellar. In 1997 the manager of the cellar in the College of St. Cross was Paul Barton Rainey, professor of evolutionary genetics from New Zealand. As he recalls in his article, his predecessor had met him with the words:

“It is gratifying to see someone willing to donate his liver College” – and advised to ingest only tasting the wine, which cost more than ten pounds.

Wine – students

My passion for wine, too, began in his student years, as I wrote earlier. But, unlike the students at Oxford, I could not afford to buy expensive wine. And they – can, and not because they are richer, but because the cellar college sells it to them at a price ten times lower than average retail. Ability to buy good wine cheaply, and regularly held on campus tasting – part of the policy of the University to educate students in good taste. Just imagine what could have said the rector of any of our university on a proposal to organize a wine tasting for the students several times a week (as is done in Oxford and Cambridge).

No, I do not think Russia’s education – is a force, but keeps it on personalities rather than on the system. And confidence in the students as kraegulnogo principle, it does not. In this context comes to mind a passage from Dickens’ novel “The History of David Copperfield, where he compares the two school systems, based on fear and trust:

School Doctor Strong’s was an excellent school, and differs from Mr. Creakle just as good from evil … The basis on reasonable system: always and everywhere have relied on the honor and decency, and students openly admitted to them these qualities, if the boys did not deceive themselves confidence, and this system worked wonders. “