Teachers
ISK’s teachers have come from around the globe to provide the best education for our students. They have lived and taught in Russia, the USA, the United Arab Emirates, China, Japan, South Korea, Jamaica, the UK, and more.
ISK’s teachers use a variety of teaching methods to inspire children to learn and develop their interests. They love helping students succeed and grow. ISK teachers believe in the worth and potential of every child.
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Oksana Islyukova
Oksana IslyukovaPrimary School Russian TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Primary Years
Favorite Quote: “Всему, что необходимо знать, научить нельзя, учитель может сделать только одно - указать дорогу." - Richard Aldington -
Yelena Karimova
Yelena KarimovaPrimary School Russian TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Primary Years
Favorite Quote: “A bad teacher teaches the truth, and a good teacher teaches you to find it yourself”. - Adolph Diesterweg -
Daniil Varlamov
Daniil VarlamovMYP PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION TEACHERCountries worked in: Ukraine, Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Pedagogical education
Favorite Quote: “Don't confuse schooling with education. ” – Elon Musk -
Anastasia Aristova
Anastasia AristovaPYP and MYP Visual Arts TeacherCountries worked in: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Design
Favorite Quote: “Rejoice in the little things, and look for inspiration nearby.” - unknown -
Leigh Coffey
Leigh CoffeyMYP Mathematics Teacher, and Service as Action CoordinatorCountries worked in: Australia, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Secondary Education
Favourite Quote: “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” - Jordan B. Peterson -
Gretchen Yurovsky
Gretchen YurovskyMYP English Language and Literature TeacherCountries Worked In: China, Russia, South Korea, Vietnam
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English Literature and History
Favorite Quote: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle -
Alison Walthew
Alison WalthewMYP and DP English Language and Literature TeacherCountries worked in: Bahrain, China, South Africa, Taiwan
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s Honours
Field of Study: Applied Linguistics
Favourite Quote: “The harder I work, the luckier I get.“ - Samuel Goldwyn -
Peggy Perkins
Peggy PerkinsMYP and DP Mathematics TeacherCountries Worked In: Jamaica, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Educational Leadership
Favorite Quote: “The top of the mountain is the bottom of the next, so keep climbing.” - André De Shields -
Olga Derendiaeva
Olga DerendiaevaMYP Performing Arts TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Turkey
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Music Education
Favorite Quote: “Everything we do is music.” - John Cage -
Bruce Zeemel
Bruce ZeemelDP Economics and ToK, and MYP Individuals and Societies Teacher, and Extended Essay CoordinatorCountries Worked In: Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Qatar, Russia, Thailand
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Educational Leadership
Favorite Quote: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
Anastasia Abdrashitova
Anastasia AbdrashitovaPYP Art TeacherCountries Worked In: Kyrgyzstan, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Arts
Favorite Quote: “You are only for a short visit here. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. Make sure to stop and smell the flowers.” - Walter Hagen -
Olga Abramova
Olga AbramovaFedo EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master`s
Field of Study: English and Literature, Linguistics
Favorite Quote: “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
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Ruzilya Nigmatullina
Ruzilya NigmatullinaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Foreign language teaching (English, Arabic)
Favorite Quote: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”.- Nelson Mandela -
Yulia Fattakhova
Yulia Fattakhovalab assistantCountries Worked In: France, Russia, United States
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Physics
Favorite Quote: "The path to excellence lies through personal development”.
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Regina Latypova
Regina LatypovaCover TeacherCountries worked in: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor's
Field of Study: Humanities
Favorite quote: “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -
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Alina Latypova
Alina LatypovaMYP and DP Visual Arts TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Arts Favorite Quote: “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso -
Kamila Mirasova
Kamila MirasovaStudent Support Coordinator, English as an Additional Language Coordinator, Secondary EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: PhD
Field of Study: Language Acquisition, World Literature
Favorite Quote: “To teach is to be full of hope.” - Larry Cuban -
Sarah Frumkin
Sarah FrumkinPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Elementary education, reading and ESOL focus
Favorite Quote: “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” - Albert EinsteinRegina ShakirzyanovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English Philology
Favorite Quote: “Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” - Edmund Burke -
Marta Pirnar Tittle
Marta Pirnar TittlePYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Angola, Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Communication Sciences
Favorite Quote: “Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question!” - George Carlin -
Gulnaz Kubasheva
Gulnaz KubashevaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia, Spain
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Philology, Pedagogy
Favorite Quote: “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -
Benjamin Tittle
Benjamin TittlePYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Angola, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovenia, Thailand, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Education Studies
Favorite Quote: “The greatest sign of success for a Teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.” - Maria MontessoriKarina BelovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed." -
Cassidi Flowers-Chabbi
Cassidi Flowers-ChabbiPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Qatar, Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Early Childhood and Special Education
Favorite Quote: “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” - Mr. RogersGulnaz KubashevaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia, Spain
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Philology, Pedagogy
Favorite Quote: “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." -
Elza Andrianova
Elza AndrianovaMYP Russian Language and Literature, and Russian Language Acquisition TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Teaching Russian and English
Favorite Quote: “You need to open your heart, then you can sing better.” - John Lennon
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Kendal Pyke
Kendal PykeMYP Language and Literature, and Individuals and Societies TeacherCountries Worked In: Japan, Morocco, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Linguistics and International Trade
Favorite Quote: “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” - Sonia Sotomayor
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Benjamin Hearn
Benjamin HearnMYP and DP Biology and Chemistry TeacherCountries Worked In: Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Environmental Science
Favorite Quote: “Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” - John Steinbeck
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Frank Cafarella
Frank CafarellaMYP Individuals and Societies, and DP History TeacherCountries Worked In: Costa Rica, Russia, Taiwan, United States of America, Vietnam
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Social Studies Education
Favorite Quote: “Every man has two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Confucius
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Simon Frumkin
Simon FrumkinMYP Physics and Science, and DP Physics TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Masters of Arts in Teaching
Favorite Quote: “Without love in a dream it will never come true.” - Robert Hunter
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Iker Fraile
Iker FraileMYP Science and Design TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Spain, Switzerland
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Environmental Sciences
Favorite Quote: “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” - Galileo Galilei
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Vicki Tiffany
Vicki TiffanyMYP Individuals and Societies, DP TOK Teacher, and CAS CoordinatorCountries Worked In: Burma, Qatar, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: History / Secondary Education
Favorite Quote: “The past can hurt...You can either run from it or learn from it.” - Rafiki
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Yuliya Tagrifullina
Yuliya TagrifullinaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English Language and Literature
Favorite Quote: “Students don't learn from the people they don't like." -
Neilya Mukhametova
Neilya MukhametovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Linguistics
Favorite Quote: “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” - Marcus Washling -
Irina Mikhailova
Irina MikhailovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Linguistics
Favorite Quote: “Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.” - Rita Pierson -
Eleonora Abdullina
Eleonora AbdullinaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English
Favorite Quote: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle -
Anastasia Andreeva
Anastasia AndreevaPYP Music and MYP Performing Arts TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Music
Favorite Quote: “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -
Gulnaz Akhsanova
Gulnaz AkhsanovaSecondary EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Germany, Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Linguistics
Favorite Quote: “Language is the dress of thought.” - Samuel Johnson -
AYZIRA YAKUPOVA
AYZIRA YAKUPOVAPrimary Substitute TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Teaching foreign languages in a multicultural environment
Favorite Quote: “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” - Oscar Wilde. -
Steven Fogarty
Steven FogartyMYP and DP Mathematics Teacher, and Personal Project CoordinatorCountries Worked In: Bahrain, China, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Mathematics
Favorite Quote: “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward
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Paula Twynham
Paula TwynhamPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: China, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Kinesiology & English Language and Literature
Favorite Quote: “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” - Lee Brown.Ruzilya NigmatullinaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Foreign language teaching (English, Arabic)
Favorite Quote: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”.- Nelson Mandela -
CRAIG SHARRATT
CRAIG SHARRATTPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: China, Russia, South Korea, Vietnam
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Social Studies
Favorite Quote: “In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for education..its like a precious gift. Its like a diamond.” - Malala Yousafzai.Liliya KarimovaTeaching assistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Teaching English
Favorite Quote: “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” - Jim Henson -
Richard Jaberzadeh
Richard JaberzadehMYP Design and DP ITGS TeacherCountries Worked In: Germany, Indonesia, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Electronics
Favorite Quote: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every Teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” - Carl Sagan
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Leanne Edwards
Leanne EdwardsHead of LibrariesCountries Worked In: Canada, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Mongolia, Russia, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them.” - Neil Gaiman
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AYGUL DAVLETSHINA
AYGUL DAVLETSHINAPrimary Substitute TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English and German
Favorite Quote: “Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher." -
AISLYN LEE
AISLYN LEEPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Canada, Indonesia, Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Communications; Education
Favorite Quote: “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” -
Ekaterina Safonova
Ekaterina SafonovaPYP Dance TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Pedagogical activity in the developing environment of educational organizations
Favorite Quote: “The impossible is possible." -
Andrew May
Andrew MayPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Geography
Favorite Quote: “The aim of education should be to light fires, not fill buckets."Karina BelovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed." -
Tatiyana Bazhanova
Tatiyana BazhanovaFedo Campus LibrarianCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English
Favorite Quote: “Become more resilient by learning to focus on solutions rather than problems” - Byron Pulsifer -
Tatiyana Labetskaya
Tatiyana LabetskayaPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Teaching English as a foreign language
Favorite Quote: “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow." -
Olga Poverenova
Olga PoverenovaPrimary School Russian TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Primary education
Favorite Quote: “A good teacher is like a candle. He dissolves himself in order to give light to others”. -
Chris Young
Chris YoungPYP and MYP Physical and Health Education TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, South Africa
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Sport Science, Sport Psychology
Favorite Quote: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." -
Liliia Minakhanova
Liliia MinakhanovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English & French
Favorite Quote: “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” - Ignacio Estrada -
Karina Belova
Karina BelovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed." -
Jennifer Berger
Jennifer BergerMYP Science Teacher, and University CounselorCountries Worked In: China, Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Science Education
Favorite Quote: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Irina Sapaeva
Irina SapaevaMathematics TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Maths
Favorite Quote: “The mathematical truth, whether in Paris or in Toulouse, is one and the same.” - Blaise Pascal
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Yulia Shishkina
Yulia ShishkinaMYP Russian Language and Literature Teacher, Russian Language CoordinatorCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Russian
Favorite Quote: “It is not the quantity of knowledge that matters, but their quality. You can know a lot, without knowing the most necessary.”- Leo Tolstoy -
Gyulnaz Bashirova
Gyulnaz BashirovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English and German
Favorite Quote: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” - Regina Brett -
Alina Khusnullina
Alina KhusnullinaPYP Music TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Music
Favorite Quote: “Every child has a sun, just let it shine." -
Alyona Gerasimova
Alyona GerasimovaTeaching assistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English
Favorite Quote: “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle -
Ravil Yusupov
Ravil YusupovMYP Design TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Architecture and building construction
Favorite Quote: “Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are." - Jim Henson -
Gulnara Gainutdinova
Gulnara GainutdinovaPrimary and Secondary School Tatar TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Turkey
Highest Degree: PhD
Field of Study: Turkology
Favorite Quote: “Природа так обо всем позаботилась, что повсюду ты находишь, чему учиться.” - Леонардо да Винчи -
Liliya Karimova
Liliya KarimovaTeaching assistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Teaching English
Favorite Quote: “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” - Jim Henson -
Rezeda Sagirova
Rezeda SagirovaMYP Russian Language and Literature, and DP Russian Literature TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: International Education
Favorite Quote: “To attract something into your life, imagine that it already exists there.” - Richard Bach -
Karel Jonker
Karel JonkerPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia, Seychelles, South Africa
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Teaching in Education
Favorite Quote: “Every student has the potential to bring something unique and special to the world. A teacher has the opportunity to impact on students’ lives in a positive way; this is a huge privilege that shouldn’t be taken lightly."Albina MansurovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English and German
Favorite Quote: “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives” - Robert M. Hutchins. -
Yulia Koroleva
Yulia KorolevaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia, United States of America
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Teaching methods of foreign languages
Favorite Quote: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -
Albina Mansurova
Albina MansurovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: English and German
Favorite Quote: “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives” - Robert M. Hutchins. -
Georgina Sneddon
Georgina SneddonPYP TeacherCountries Worked In: France, Russia, South Africa, United Kingdom
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Primary Education
Favorite Quote: “I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.” - George Bernard ShawAlyona GerasimovaTeaching assistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English
Favorite Quote: “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle -
Landysh Islyamova
Landysh IslyamovaPrimary EAL TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’solga
Field of Study: Education
Favorite Quote: “A school is a workshop where the thought of the younger generation is formed, you need to hold it tightly in your hands, if you do not want to lose your future.” - Henry Barbusse -
Regina Shakirzyanova
Regina ShakirzyanovaTeaching AssistantCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: English Philology
Favorite Quote: “Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” - Edmund Burke -
Dilyus Garaev
Dilyus GaraevPYP Physical Education TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Bachelor’s
Field of Study: Physical education
Favorite Quote: “If you make friends with sport, you will be healthy." -
Ilvira Valiullova
Ilvira ValiullovaPrimary School Russian TeacherCountries Worked In: Russia
Highest Degree: Master’s
Field of Study: Russian
Favorite Quote: “A real teacher is not the one who constantly educates you, but the one who helps you become yourself". - Mikhail Svetlov