"What the hell did the ancient Greeks? Nothing!" Reflections on the future of Russia

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I talked today with one sixth grader is not a poor provincial family. His knowledge of history struck me, and brought to a very sad reflection on the future of Russia

Family educated parents have a good job, all things ... to start a conversation? With the transfer of sixth grader of his favorite subjects. Mathematics, physical education, history ... The question: "What do you have completed study of history?" A response was received "ancient Greece".

I sincerely wanted to know that are interested in looking for a deep history of ancient Greece, that he remembered what will tell.
"Tell me about the Trojan War." There is no answer in the eyes of the guy puzzling.
"Well, as the Battle of Thermopylae tell?" I thought the 300 Spartans is well to remember the guy. Same answer.
"Well, what did the Greeks do? Why do they learn?" Intelligible answer I got, but tried another five minutes ... nothing has been done by the ancient Greeks in the mind of this guy. Rather, history lessons on the topic "Ancient Greece" have left nothing in his mind. Nothing!

What happens in our education and specifically with the study of history? Why, even the boys of the Spartans can not say anything? Let's listen to professional, Yuri Nikiforov, Ph.D., head of the department of history, philosophy and culture MSTU. Sholokhov, a professor of the Academy of Military Sciences. Here are some typical theses of his speech at the 2nd Congress of the PBC.

One of the modern textbooks teach future teachers of history as follows: "it is necessary to convince the students that any reforms must be carried out until the end, no matter what they came to an end." Then it is written that it is necessary to hold them, as difficult as these reforms were none.

History - the main support for the formation of the identity of the young man, his civil and patriotic education. The young man will understand that he is a Russian citizen of Russia, that Russia has immense intrinsic historical space. And this historical space affects us and should influence our descendants. All of these tasks must be executed on the lessons of history. But whether it will be done if:
- Reforms need to be carried out to the end, whatever they may be ended;
- The result of a permanent reform of our education in the past 25 years, very negative;

So the result of this ongoing reform of the negative can be degraded and education in general, and in particular the study of history. This is followed by the destruction of both society and patriotism. And that means - the state and the future of our nation.

Yes, educational standards contain requirements for "patriotic education of Russian civil." Yes, at the initiative of the Russian President created a new, one can say patriotic concept of history teaching and new textbooks should enter the school in 2015. But all these good deeds are in conflict not only with the situation of permanent reform of the Russian education in which there is no quality, no positive outcome for society, no guarantee that in the future all of these patriotic concept is not a change to neutral or worse - antipatrioiticheski - liberal.

Another contradiction, according Yu.Nikiforova is the definition of education as a service sector. A combination of the principle of patriotic education in general and the history of education as a service - is schizophrenia. Why is that? Yes, because the patriotic education can not be a service for which pay or not to pay the prospective buyer. And the quality of this service - the patriotic education of history and wider education, can not depend on the principle of payment or conditional payment for education, the principle of price. Because the price in this case - is the existence (or not) and the people of Russia as a state. Within the paradigm of "education as a service" training school history (and even more so in a patriotic vein) inevitably turns into a kind of "education tax imposed by the state on top of a conditional package of services to the consumer." Consequently, with the victory of the concept of "education - a service" patriotic education, or any education at school and then writhed necessarily degraded.

Another contradiction with any patriotic upbringing and education is the so-called competence approach in education. The competence approach is the starting point of some labor functions that masters student in the learning process. These work functions determined by the employer and patriotism in these functions, you see, can not be. Further, of these job functions are formulated target setting educational program. Employer, by and large, do not care whether he is celebrating the employee, for example, the 9th of May.

And indeed in this context that "education - Services - Labour function - competence" prospective employer does not need any knowledge of the history of the worker nor the literature, nor other humanitarian subjects. So the school can reasonably reduce teaching hours in these subjects that successfully done. In such a system the patriotism of the student, which they say education standards and Presidential Decree is impossible declaration.

The next issue of the teaching of history is contained in the existing education system. Since 1992, the law "On education" the teaching of history in the school was divided into two stages: from 5th to 9th grade history study, then in the 10-11 th grade repeats. You're the same number of hours, but in practice it turns out that, in practice, in the 10-11 th grade students do not study history on, and repeat the study. So, in fact learn less than in Soviet schools, where the teaching of history has been continuously developing since the 4th to the 10th grade.

But that is not all. In fact, the child of 10-11 class usually just tosses to teach history as a mandatory exam on the history there, and then the story turns into elective. It is not necessary to take the story, and there are other exam, which is necessary to prepare a child in high school! And this means that history, and patriotism are "past" the student at a time of life when a person strongly formed. So, the young man created a void that is filled with pleasure the other, not the patriotic forces.

The big problem for the study of history lies in the books themselves. In the 90 years the Soviet textbooks was sharply criticized for "ideologized" for dry, for not interesting. New textbooks have become more interesting due to the inclusion of different parts, pictures, excerpts from the sources. But this has disappeared from the textbooks axis learning how theoretical understanding. No talking with students about the laws of historical development, the reasons, nature and character of the processes. Terms used in the textbooks - are labels that have no scientific meaning. "The apogee of Stalinism" - what is it? Shortcut. The terms and concepts that need to transfer some theoretical knowledge, are not used.

So, the scheme used in the history of serious primitizirovanny. For example: "Why did Ivan the Terrible killed his son? Because he was wicked! Why, Alexander II freed the peasants? Because that kind!" Primitivization as a principle. Also, talk about how good or ill will of a ruler students usually can not. That is, excuse me, odebilivabyuschee education. Open the social, economic and other conditions students can not, such a language they are generally available. So, in modern life, they are likely to be thinking in the paradigm of "good against evil Putin United States." What does it lead to? By the "Maidan" in Moscow.

That's what says about Yu.Nikiforov:
"Conditions have been created for high school graduates were carried away then all sorts of conspiracy theories. They have no other way to explain the world can do. They have the" evil Stalin ordered, so it happened. "... That is - their level of conversation. It is this Conspiracy theorists can get involved in. Then - they can get involved in different mystical alternative versions of history. They are ready to believe, listen to those who talks about all sorts of different mystical facts or even this type of factors acting in history. So, they become easy prey for any falsifier of history or any member of the neo-pagan totalitarian sect. Because in itself reflexive ability to critically relate to historical material - it is not formed in the learning process, there is no place for this: the time to think and reason, the teacher was not. "

Such dire prospects patriotic approach to education in Russia and, on the other hand, the prospects konspirologizatsii and "maydanizatsii" consciousness of the Russian youth. The most interesting is that the weakness of education plays into the hands of different kinds of manipulators, on the ground that the historical "innocence" of young people impose their anti-patriotic work. For example, such anti-patriotic activities, in particular glorifying Bandera, engaged ANO "Perm-36" and its director, Victor Shmyrov. People like Victor Shmyrov and his fellow defenders, gladly replace the void in the historic patriotic content Bandera, profashistkoe glorifying collaborationists. Read the post esteemed kamrad2213 «Are they perverts?". Some facets of anti-state behavior probanderovskogo Shmyrova and museum "Perm-36" there are.

Scary is not what today a boy does not know about ancient Greece, studied the course of the history of the school for the 5th grade. It is simply alarming bell. The scary thing is that young people who do not get at least normal (do not say - patriotic education), and then trained liars, anti-Soviet and anti-patriots such as Shmyrova in museums like "Perm-36" in response to the question: "Well, all the good done in THE USSR?" answer: "Nothing. Only the people were killed." Further, all this can be explained by the youth that modern Russia - the successor of the Soviet Union and that there is also no good. And then the "Maidan" in Moscow and Russia will not be at all. These are the sad thoughts about a conversation with one weak in the knowledge of the history of a schoolboy ...