School is like a borderline between the world of a state and a personality, at the same time at school the adults teach children and vise versa. The fun begins even with the language of adults and teenagers: they are entirely different. School is like a black box, nobody but teachers and students knows much about it, from time to time only caricaturists lift the mysterious veil. A French drawer G. Dore remembered his school years with humorous drawings. It can be said that humorists and satirists are brought up at school. F. Fellini was absolutely sure that his sense of humour, taste to satire, and ironic and sympathetic view had developed at school. He remembered that his teacher were just funny despite their shouting, insults, nervousness, and madness. Caricatures drawn on the blackboards, on book covers, in the note-books, humorous portraits of classmates and teachers are a sound reaction of a personality in the attempt to preserve his/her own originality. A caricature is like a kind of self-defense.

Schools of all times are alike, whether it is a medieval school satirically depicted by P. Bruegel, or a modern one.

Russian caricature of the late XIXth - early XXth century paid much attention to teacher-pupil relationships and absurd pedagogical theories. School topic was represented on postcards: on an Easter postcard in 1900s a teacher-hen was punishing a pupil-chicken who had poured ink. Some writers devoted his books to their school years. (A. Averchenko's humorous stories; "Konduit and Shvambrania" by L. Kassil)