Collective Kindness

An amazing real-life story

 

 

 

   

Year1960. A boy stopped going to school. He didn't show up for a week, two...

Lyova didn't have a phone, and his classmates, on the advice of their teacher, decided to go to his home.

Lyova's mother opened the door. She had a very sad face.

The boys greeted each other and timidly asked:

– Why doesn't Lyova go to school?

Mom answered sadly:
– He cannot go to school with you anymore. Lyova had an unsuccessful operation. He went blind and cannot walk on his own...

 

 

 

 

The boys went silent... They looked at each other, and then one of them suggested:

– We'll take turns taking him to school.

– And walking him home.

– And we'll help him with his homework, – the classmates began to chirp, interrupting each other.

 

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Tears welled up in Mom's eyes. She led her friends into the room. A little while later, feeling his way with his hand, Lyova came out to them with a blindfold on.

The boys froze. Only now did they truly understand what a misfortune had happened to their friend.

Lyova said with difficulty:

– Hello.

 

 

 

 

And then from all sides it rained down:

– I'll come for you tomorrow and take you to school.

– And I'll tell you what we covered in algebra.

– And I'll tell you about history.

 

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Lyova didn't know who to listen to, and only nodded his head in confusion.

Tears streamed down his mother's face.

After leaving, the boys made a plan – who would come in when, who would explain which subjects, who would walk with Lyova and take him to school.

At school, the boy who sat at the same desk with Lyova quietly told him during the lesson what the teacher wrote on the board.

And how the class froze when Lyova answered! How everyone rejoiced at his A's, even more than at their own ones!

Lyova studied brilliantly. The whole class began to study better.

In order to explain a lesson to a friend who got into trouble, you need to know it yourself. And the boys did their best.

What's more, in the winter they began to take Lyova to the skating rink.

 

 

 

 

Lyova loved classical music very much, and his classmates went with him to symphony concerts...

 

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Lyova graduated from school with a gold medal.

In the university, his new friends became Lyova's eyes.

Having graduated from the university, Lyova continued to study and, gradually, he became a world-famous mathematician Pontryagin.

 

 

 

 

There are countless people who saw the light thanks to kindness of others.

Written by Boris Ganago

 

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Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (1908–1988) was a prominent Soviet mathematician known for his work in topology and algebraic topology, particularly in cobordism theory and the Pontryagin-Thom construction.

Despite losing his sight at the age of 14, he made significant contributions to mathematics, and his name is associated with several important concepts in the field.

 

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