Belarus's university in exile
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She tells me that she once presented a teacher in Minsk with her own translation of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. The teacher was not impressed and gave her a low mark for failing to complete the correct assignment - a biography of the playwright.
"I was punished for my creativity but here if you try something new, you are always appreciated. That's why I can tell I cherish, cherish every single lecture and course that I attend at this university because it's so, so different."
She adds: "You can speak, you can just express yourself and this is precious and you are never given this opportunity in Belarus, never."
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Whoa. What old hardass jerks.
The government would rather train the next generation as mindless drones rather than encourage creative thinkers.