At school, things had become pretty bad, because they had eliminated the class repetition and some pupils did not learn aware they would graduate anyhow. That?s why some high school graduates did not have a minimum of general knowledge or, more seriously, made mistakes both in speaking and writing.

School was a political institution. We had to introduce in lessons of Romanian, geography, history, biology ideas about the communist politics regarding industry, agriculture, the success of the communist society.

The limit of school education had decreased from 6 years and they had extended compulsory education to 10 years.

The textbooks were insufficient, printed on bad quality paper. They were preserved from generation to generation and after 3 or 4 years they were impossible to use. (O. U., 36)

We used to go on lot of trips to the theatre, to the puppet shows.

I remember that I was chosen to go to the Children?s Palace just once to ? demonstrate?, that is to agitate some flags, scarves things like that in a certain direction, to a certain rhythm; the preparation went like this: somebody would say: ? now lift, wave all this to the left, now to the right, then you can sit down. The only thing is that I stayed too much because the doubling did not succeed as it should, there wasn?t a synchronization, without a rehearsal everything was a mess. Unfortunately, I couldn?t see myself on TV, they cut it on editing, because we didn?t synchronize. (S. C., 5)

After finishing the classes, they used to take us to see an educational film at Miorita cinema, films with the comrade. (I. I., 56)

I remember that at school we had silkworms. There was a classroom where we had made a cr?che (that?s what we called it). The worms were arranged in groups in an aquarium.  We kept them for the silk allegedly, I never saw what happened to them, we just fed them. They smelled terribly, they were kept in a strange kind of hay. (114)