In one Moscow school a boy stopped going to class. One week he didn’t go, two... Leo didn’t have a phone, and his classmates, on the advice of the teacher, decided to go home to him. The door was opened by Levi’s mother. Her face was very sad. The boys greeted and asked:
“Why doesn’t Leo go to school?” My mom replied sadly, “He won’t be studying with you anymore. He was operated. and failed. The lion is blind and cannot walk.
The boys were silent, looked around, and then one of them proposed, "And we will take him to school in turn."
and carry home.
- And the lessons will help to do, - interrupting each other, the classmates ticked.
My mother had tears in her eyes. She took her friends into the room. A little weather, touching the way with his hand, Leo came out to them with a bandage in their eyes. The guys froze. Only now did they really understand what misfortune happened to their friend. Leo said with difficulty, “Hello.” And then from all sides he said, “I’ll go after you tomorrow and take you to school. I will tell you that we went through algebra. I am in history.
Leo did not know whom to listen to, and only stirred his head confusedly.
There were tears on my mother’s face. After leaving, the boys made a plan - who comes in when, who explains what subjects, who will walk with Leo and drive him to school. In school, a boy, who was sitting with Leo on the same table, quietly told him during the lesson what the teacher was writing on the board. And how dumb the class was when Leo answered! How everyone was delighted with his five, even more than his own! Leopard studied very well. The whole class was better. In order to explain a lesson to a friend in trouble, you need to know it yourself. The guys tried.
In the winter they began to drive the lion on a slide. The boy loved classical music, and his classmates went with him to symphony concerts.
He finished the school with a gold medal, then entered the institute. And there found friends who became his eyes. After the Institute, Leo continued to study and eventually became a world-renowned mathematician, academician Pontraghine. Do not count people who have seen for good.
Lev Semjonovich Pontryagin (1908-1988) - Soviet mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, academic of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who lost his vision at the age of 14.