In Soviet Russia, book reads YOU. 2009/9/8 Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com>
> Hi, > > In socialistic USSR, school books were not bought each year. Instead pupils > had to take them from their's school library for the coming year and return > them at end of the year. Each book had "worn out" level marked on cover of > the book and one had to be careful not to wore out the book too much during > the year. As a penalty for lost or unusable book, the student had to buy a > new book for the library. To draw or mark text in the book was a big no-no. > All books had hard-cover and had strong binding for durability. Every > student was required to put the book he got into special plastic boundary. > If a course required pupils to draw on printed material (like letters in the > first form), the pupil had to buy addendum personal notebook he had to draw > in. I remember I used books with 15-20 name-year pairs in it. > > Needless to say, all books were written by a department in the Ministry of > Education, and not private author benefited from the authorship. > > After all there were some good economy tactics in the socialism that IMHO > should be applied to capitalism (albeit forcefully)... > > -- > Arie > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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