The Ministry of Education and Science introduces chess into the school curriculum
Information Agency Interfax cites a statement by the Minister of Education and Science, who answered the question of Senator Oleg Tsepkin:
It was the senator from the Chelyabinsk region who asked Olga Vasilyeva whether the Ministry of Education would introduce the lessons of “chess culture”.
Olga Vasilyeva:
The introduction of chess in the school curriculum, in general, may be useful. However, the minister’s statements that “there are no additional competencies required there” are somewhat alarming. It turns out that additional competencies may be needed for teaching a child to mathematics, drawing, or a foreign language, but not for learning to play chess. With such logic, will not the learning process of a new program be reduced to a formality?
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