”Nizhny Novgorod Archimedes”, as contemporaries called Ivan Kulibin, did not graduate from any university, which, however, did not prevent him from becoming a member and head of the mechanical workshop of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia. At a young age, the famous inventor, born in 1735, was trained in locksmithing, turning and watchmaking, but the main baggage of knowledge still received thanks to his curiosity, persistence and feverish desire to create. But how did he feel about the idea of the need for a classical education?