Teenage teacher may spark Russian trend
Published 22 May, 2008, 05:53
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but how about training a young pup in the ways of the old? That’s exactly what teachers from a school in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria did when they let a 14-year-old boy teach physics to his peers.
Roman Yadrin says his classmates treated him like any other new teacher when he took over three physics classes at his school.
“At first, the pupils thought it was a joke. They looked at me as they would look at a new teacher or trainee,” he says.
Things quickly changed as Roman’s talent for explaining science made his peers forget his age.
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