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to participate. And remember: the responsibility of the therapist is more always because he is in a better position.
In Soviet Russia, when a student fails the teacher is thought to be responsible -- that's right, absolutely right -- and he has to answer for it. That should be the case all over the world.
When a student fails the teacher has a responsibility. What was he doing for the whole year? The student has come from a lower class, he has passed the lower examination so he was capable of understanding whatsoever was being taught. Somehow the teacher has been missing his responsibilities, avoiding. That is the only country -- in that way I appreciate the soviet system -- where the teacher has to be responsible: he will have to answer if a student fails.
One of my friends was there, he was a professor in Leningrad university in Russia. He was a professor of sanskrit and he had only seven students. As things go in India -- he was a professor here before he went there -- you can't pass all the students. That is a tacit understanding -- that all cannot be passed, a few have to fail, otherwise people will think that you are biased; you have passed all the students.
So when he checked the papers he found that they were all passable, but thinking that people would think he had been too biased.... He was their professor and the examiner too, because in the soviet system they say that the person who has been with the students for the whole year knows the students far better than anybody else. In india it is not so: the teacher cannot be the examiner because he will be partial. A new examiner has to come who does not know the students at all so he can remain impartial.
He was the teacher and he was the examiner, it was on his recommendation they were to be passed, so he was very much afraid because they were all passable. He told me that he failed two and passed five. He was immediately called up by the head of the department who said, 'You will be in trouble! Why did these two students fail? What were you doing the whole year? Your salary will be reduced!'
My friend could not understand it... what was this? If two students failed
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