SUMMARY
A pedagogue and a student hold opposing views on the topic of the “course study”. The view of the student is that the time spent at school should be as short as possible (in order not to work at school but in practice so as to make money) and the view of the pedagogue is that the time spent at school should be as long as possible (in order to devote enough time to the background of the tasks and to their elaboration in accordance with the curriculum). It is connected with the cardinal question whether to organize the educational programme into the two-grade level study or not. It is related to the effort of the Slovak Republic to join the European and transatlantic structures – this is not apparent at first though.