Russia finally got out of the group of advanced countries. Therefore, before domestic education are very specific tasks. Frames, capable of competing on the world market, raw materials appendage is not needed.
Let’s discuss what will make a brand-new, spick-and-span, the Minister of education Olga Vasilyeva. As based on its previous achievements will be implemented in schools and universities, Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality (she’s, like, such compass, patriot). Or dream that Vasilyeva, the lady with the appearance of the progressive feminists, on the contrary, return education to its former, Soviet-era prestige.
Perhaps some funny moments, due to personal qualities, Olga in clashes with the system and we will deliver (after all, its predecessor Livanov delivered — especially when they introduced the American test system of evaluation of knowledge under the form of unified state examination, and the country is in unison of the exam would not, preferring Russian sincerity in the relationship with the examiner). But in General, Vasilyev, even if there is illusion and ambition, in the Ministerial chair will inevitably move from the so-called Autonomous status of the agent and will do what needs Russian political system at the moment.
“Agent”, “Autonomous” is the term the famous American social psychologist Stanley Milgram. In Russia, it is rarely heard — on a Fig to us what the scientists are Americans, we have our own way. This is the path and will follow the Russian educational system, whoever was in charge. In the end, when a progressive technocrat and Others she successfully bogged down in a quiet marsh with reeds. Who doesn’t like it — you can cut. And knocked: those, whose specialty is convertible, from biologists to mathematicians.
And they are right. Because before the modern Russian education is the problem, the opposite problem of Soviet education. In the Soviet Union sought to produce competitive personnel for the struggle for world leadership. Soviet physics-mathematics, and partly geologists-biologists, was of the same level as the us. Received the Nobel prize chemist Semenov, physics, Cherenkov, Tamm, Frank, Landau, Basov, Prokhorov, Kapitsa, Alferov, Abrikosov, Ginzburg… they could All their knowledge in Russia to apply. But the Nobel prize 2010 Geim and Novoselov — is the result of the fact that these guys are from Russia just left. The result was an awkward moment when they were asked to go, and they said that fools do not consider themselves.
The Soviet educational project was on tasks similar to pre-revolutionary Russian (think of Nobel prize Mechnikov and Pavlov). Russia since Peter wanted to enter and gain a foothold in the club of advanced countries. Education in Russia for 300 years was modernization project — inconsistent, but still a modernization.
Today a problem there, because Russia has not just come out of the group of advanced countries. Over the past 16 years she has stopped any attempts to compete with the a-League and dropped to the second League, becoming an “energy superpower” (or, more simply, a raw materials appendage). And the West is building a new economy is not energy intensive industry, and human capital. And then we are infinitely behind on all indicators, even from Finland. Partly because Finland was carried out a huge education reform, and every Finn began to speak in English. Small, Northern, independent of the elephant neighbor country fully integrated into the world economy.
Russia today Finland can not compete. Our closest rival and brother in the foreseeable future — Turkey. Almost identical political systems, comparable levels of income, similar to the feeling that the greatness is in the past, the same arguments, Europe or not, only the role of hydrocarbons for Turkey perform two warm sea agriculture, allows you to take three crops a year.
Therefore, the tasks facing the Russian educational system and its head Olga Vasilyeva, exactly two. The first is to develop graduates who will provide competition with Turkey, Emirates and other countries in the second group, not allowing to fall below (and there is such a chance). The second is to make the most of not noticed has come off from the first League.
The way to tell that the today’s situation of Russian education was the result of the evil will of the Russian Tsar. It is the result of collective goodwill. In accordance with which European institutions are in Russia for external pleasure, but in reality are rooted in Asia. “Kreakl”, “network hamster”, “hipster with tablet computers” — ha-ha-ha, ” the Russian majority over the minority that wants to work in the knowledge economy. When I mention the us network hamsters, some Elon musk in response to pret sincere anger: Yes, Musk is all empty space, his money from the U.S. budget pumped! Yes the us dollar is too inflated it will collapse soon!
Crashing however, so far only the welfare of Russians made in the early 2010s, when it was removed the last cream from the recognition of the value of commodities, natural resources. These values were not eternal, but transient — in that the new version of civilization that was offered by the Western world with America at the head. That is why the founder of mail.ru Milman, the Creator of Abbyy Yang, and thousands of other Russian kreaklov today live and work in Silicon valley, in SKOLKOVO.
The world is close to us in the structure of the country facing the problem of path selection and, consequently, the educational system is very acute because it is a matter of survival. Such, for example, Armenia (country with a weak democracy). But Armenia is trying to figure out how to produce the product which can be traded without crossing the border (because the border of Azerbaijan, and with it the war). To do this in Armenia began to hold the crazy education reform. The country allowed Western teachers and Western educational network. Completely changed the law on education, giving schools the right to experiment. For teachers who have undergone modernization training, began to pay presidential grants on the level of salary of the Minister. Introduced a new system of educational indicators, known as the “Ararat baccalaureate”. The “Ayb” school, educational center “TUMO” is all pilot centres unimaginable in Russia, where educational standards strangled by all.
Under Brezhnev, we have formed the movement of innovative teachers. And now, after learning about Armenia, we have neigh: Ararat, ha-ha, what?!
Because, I repeat, the current task of Russian education — anti-modernization. In Russia do not aim even the education of future elites, because elites are created and reproduced outside of education, on the basis of nepotism.
Russian school, becoming universal, has degenerated into a system of social care of young people. It is a system of temporary public employment of young people, to not rebel.
This educational system and will cover the newly promoted Minister Vasileva, regardless of what her personal views, as well as ethical and aesthetic positions.
In Russia today there is no demand for modernisation and change. And when you see — the whole system will collapse at one point, as the Soviet Union collapsed.
And it’s a smart student and the student should understand. And yet every day, until blue in the face, using “can not” to teach the English language as the most important subject of a possible future.
