A Russian friend of mine who was very smart and very good at math clearly comes from what I call the throw your children down a well school of education. It goes like this: “Throw your children down a well. Any child that was not strong enough to climb out on their own was a waste of time anyway.”

I had a Russian coach who described the Soviet training philosophy similarly.

(In a Russian accent) “if you throw many eggs at wall, most will break, but those that don’t are strong egg. Igor was strong egg”

He had multiple top 10s at world championships and 1 medal… definitely a strong egg

So that was Bane's school then...