The Schoolwriter

I don't understand - I only had a book in the first class, the first book was the Literary, in which the letters were just studied and only then - reading ("MA-MA MY-LA RA-MU"), the first notebook was the Notebook, in which the sticks and circles were first written and only then the letters, and the first calculator - the counting sticks? And then I look at everyone already in the school academics came...although the program of education is like one for everyone (at least then it was definitely one).