This book contains my observations on the present situation in Russian schools. Also, it will provide you with some tips how to cope with typical problems you may face as a teacher, my personal methods directed to help students with learning and to make a learning process more efficient. Some of this methods are quite new for the modern Russian school: it is rather hard to embed them in teacher's work because of our traditional educational system that has not been modernized since the USSR and is not very friendly to any new ideas. Besides, this book includes some critics of the Russian school system and comparisons with the USA school system.