Against a dying Russia
В previous article We talked with you about the fact that today Russia is in a very difficult phase of its development. In the 32 years after the collapse of the USSR, almost 16 people died "in excess" in Russia and 000 children were not born, in total, Russia lost 000 people in 26 years. Today, Russia is lagging behind in scientific and technological progress, many sectors of the economy are in decline, sanctions have placed a heavy burden on the shoulders of the economy. Enemies are doing their best to destroy our Motherland. The future is hazy and unsettling.
The solution of these and many other problems will take more than one decade. Therefore, the future citizens of Russia, our children, must be ready to meet and overcome these challenges. In order to survive, cope with all the tasks with honor and ensure the further development of Russia, our children must be courageous, honest, purposeful, educated, hardworking, responsible, fair, optimistic and humane, be true patriots who love their Motherland.
In the last article, we found out that anyone can grow up from any child - you can grow a fascist, or you can grow a communist, you can grow a cannibal, or you can grow an intellectual, you can grow a crook or a bandit, or you can grow a law enforcement officer. You can raise anyone, directing the child in the right direction in the process of personality formation. But you can only do this once. There is only one attempt to form a child's personality, only one attempt to form his worldview, instill moral norms and choose ideals.
Let's continue.
Who chooses the ideology?
While hearts for honor are alive,
My friend, we will dedicate to the Fatherland
Souls are wonderful impulses!
A. S. Pushkin "To Chaadaev"
So, we found out that the formation of a child's personality, the formation of his worldview and the choice of ideals occur in accordance with the ideology that prevails in his reference society (in a class or a sports team).
It's time to exhale with relief and say - yes, yes, we remember that since the time of Ancient Greece, the main task of teachers is to educate a good person!
Remark. Even the ancient Greeks realized that in the process of education the main thing is not to teach a child some craft, the main thing is to educate a good person and citizen. The child, first of all, must take place as a person, as a rational being, become fair, courageous, wise and pious (acquire cardinal virtues - from the Latin cardinālis “main, main”) and learn to show these qualities in their deeds and speeches. In this case, he can be considered fully educated.
And then the child will be able to choose any profession and specialize (by the way, it is by the same method that children are brought up in Britain and the USA in private schools for the elite).
Therefore, we, parents, expect that it is the teacher, teacher, class teacher who will properly educate our children and instill in them the right ideology. And children will see confirmation of the correctness of the proposed ideology and ideals (purposefulness, desire to be educated, hardworking, responsible, proactive, strong, courageous, courageous, enduring, optimistic and humane, a true patriot who loves his Motherland) in the qualities of characters, actions and judgments of others their adults, the characters of their favorite books, the most popular films, hundreds of fascinating and instructive stories on the Internet. They will discover the honor and respect surrounding the heroes of the legends, whom they are offered to look up to.
But no!
First, the Russian government under the threat of criminal liability forbade teachers to raise children.
Remark. A well-known saying very accurately describes the principles of education - “Reward and punishment are two sides of the same coin, whose name is “education”.
Here the right to punish Russian teachers was taken away as part of the 2007 education reform - in Russia it is forbidden to punish for behavior and poor progress both in kindergartens and in schools. And from July 27, 2009, parents and teachers in Russia can receive a term of up to three years for causing "... moral suffering to a child" (Article 156 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
But, according to Burres F. Skinner (the most influential psychologist of the XNUMXth century, USA), the meaning of punishment is to make the student suffer for unacceptable behavior, to encourage a person not to behave in this way. Burres F. Skinner believes that punishment is the most powerful method of controlling behavior.
Secondly, in the existing staff list of educational institutions of the Russian Federation there are no rates for teachers who should be engaged not in educational, but in educational activities.
Help. In the United States, the educational role in the formation of personality, worldview, and moral standards is assigned to numerous scout movements, which are funded from the state budget and private donations. Almost all teenagers in the United States are involved in the scouting movement. Here is the worldview and moral standards that are instilled in little Americans today:
Be faithful to God, devoted to the Motherland.
Be honest and truthful.
Help your neighbor.
Be a friend to everyone and a brother to another scout.
Always comply with the requirements of the parents and the leader.
Protect nature.
Be polite.
Be pure in thought, word and deed.
Be thrifty and respect other people's property.
Be hardworking and persistent.
Be cheerful and never lose heart.
Be humble.
As role models, numerous scouting organizations offer their former Scouts of America, who in adulthood became presidents of the country, leaders of large organizations, scientists, inventors, military men, actors, etc.
Help. In the USSR, the educational role in the formation of personality, worldview, moral standards was assigned to the October, Pioneer and Komsomol organizations. Here is the worldview and moral standards that were instilled in young Soviet citizens:
October Rules (approved by the Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League on March 17.03.1967, XNUMX):
Octobrists are future pioneers.
The Octobrists are diligent guys, they love school, they respect their elders.
Only those who love work are called Octobrists.
The October people are truthful and courageous, dexterous and skillful.
The October people are friendly guys, they read and draw, play and sing, they live happily.
Pioneer Rules:
Be devoted to the motherland, the party, communism.
Look up to the heroes of struggle and labor.
Respect the memory of the fallen fighters and get ready to become the defender of the Motherland.
Study well, be hardworking, play sports.
Be an honest and faithful comrade, always boldly stand for the truth.
Be a friend to other pioneers and to the children of the working people of all countries.
Komsomol rules:
Be industrious.
Take care of public, socialist property.
Be honest and truthful, sensitive and attentive.
Always put the public interest ahead of the private.
Be a selfless patriot of the Soviet Motherland.
Be a friend and brother to all citizens of the USSR.
Be proactive.
Quickly and accurately carry out orders, bring any work begun to the end.
Develop criticism and self-criticism.
Fight against arrogance and arrogance.
Go in for sports regularly, be ready for work and defense of the USSR.
As role models, the youth organizations of the USSR offered former pioneers and Komsomol members who, in adulthood, became Heroes of the Soviet Union, heads of large enterprises, scientists, inventors, military men, actors, etc.
Thirdly, in the information field of children (Internet, movies, clips, lyrics) there are no heroes (of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries) that teachers at school are sluggishly trying to offer. In modern films, clips and the Internet, the heroes swear, drink, reflect, do not work, have fun, lie, rob, kill, squander money left and right, deceive, often hate Russia and despise the state.
Fourth, in Russia ideology is prohibited by the Constitution - Article 13 prohibits ideology.
Remark. Although, you see, it sounds strange, because if ideology is a set of ideas, and ideas are thoughts, then the Constitution offers us a meaningless existence? But that doesn't happen. Here, try not to think about anything for at least 5 minutes. Or 3 minutes, or one. Does not work? Well, of course not, because - "I think, therefore I am" (Rene Descartes).
It turns out that Article 13 directly prohibits the creation of an ideology for citizens exclusively by the state (and after all, common values, a common worldview and ideals should unite citizens). But no article can forbid people to think and create hundreds and thousands of their own mini-ideologies: punks, emos, goths, fishermen, liberals, national liberals, rockers, hunters, communists, etc.
Now is the time to ask: “Who then creates or approves the ideology?” The answer is obvious - the ideology is approved (or created) by the leader of the collective (leader, ringleader, party leader, etc.). Now it remains to understand who takes the role of leader in the teenage group.
Leader in the youth community
in the evening in a huge field, in rye. Thousands of babies, and not a soul around,
no adults but me. And I'm standing on the very edge of the cliff,
over the abyss, you know? And my job is to catch kids so that
they did not fall into the abyss. You see, they play and do not see where
they run, and then I run up and catch them so that they do not break. That's
all my work. Guard the guys over the abyss in the rye. I know it's stupid
but that's the only thing I really want.
I must be a fool.
Jerome D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"
Man is a social being. Moreover, each of us lives simultaneously in several societies - the people, the family, the labor collective, the association of interests (fishermen friends, for example). Staying in each social niche, in order not to be expelled and feel confident and safe, each individual must follow the rules adopted in this social environment. In addition to specific norms, a hierarchy of relationships is built in any social group.
Children are primitive beings (their intellect is not yet developed), therefore a primitive hierarchy is established in children's groups.
In a social group with a primitive hierarchy, the measure of social position is the power with which you can take values for yourself or force members of the group to act. Aggression, violence, cruelty are the main tools in a social group with a primitive hierarchy. The leader of a group with a primitive hierarchy always and immediately punishes members of the group for violating the rules established in the group.
V. R. Dolnik, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 1994, Didier Desor (France, University of Nancy) published a paper in which he experimentally proved that the removal of an alpha individual from society only leads to the fact that the vacant place is immediately occupied by the most aggressive of the remaining ones.
It is very easy for an adult to take the place of a leader in a teenage group.
Firstly, it is in the spirit of tradition - there were parents (adults), and the child listened to them, another adult came to replace them.
Secondly, adults are more erudite, more well-read, etc., they know the answers to questions that arise in children in the process of personality formation and exploration of the world.
Thirdly, adults, unlike children, have more life experience, better predict events, so an adult will see a growing conflict or problem earlier, prevent it from developing, and clarify who is right and who is wrong.
An adult can easily punish anyone for wrongdoing, because he is physically stronger. Therefore, children are instinctively ready to accept an adult as the leader of their group. In order for an adult to become the leader of a teenage team, the teacher needs:
• spend all active time of teenagers with them (in the USSR earlier, but now in all schools for the elite in Britain, the USA and other countries, 1-5 adults are assigned to one group of teenagers, who in shifts control the life of teenagers for 10-12 hours a day). day or around the clock in boarding schools);
• you need to start forming a worldview yourself, without waiting for questions (according to L. S. Vygotsky) (describing who is who, what is what); explain what and why you need to learn in order to take a worthy place in society, etc. In other words, lead;
• reward for achievements and punish for violations, demonstrate justice to the whole group, etc.
If a teacher in a children's team refuses to apply punishment to delinquent children, this will be tantamount to giving up the role of an alpha individual. Children will consider such a teacher “weak”, unfair (after all, for breaking the rules in a primitive society, inevitable punishment should follow) and unworthy. If the teacher publicly loses a martial art with the most aggressive child in the class, classmates will visibly see the incapacity of the proposed concept of the teacher, they will no longer obey him. If the teacher does not take on the function of an alpha individual, this does not mean that there will be no alpha individual in this social group. The most aggressive child will simply become an alpha individual.
An eighth-grader rudely put a teacher out the door in the middle of a lesson for asking him to take off his hood, spb.kp.ru
Remark. For an event to occur, necessary and sufficient conditions must be met.
Example: "Vasya receives a scholarship at this university." Necessary condition P: "Vasya is a student of this university." Sufficient condition Q: "Vasya studies at this university without triples."
So, in order for Russian teenagers to fall under the influence of teenage leaders, the necessary and sufficient conditions must be met. In our case, they will be:
• Necessary condition - in a teenage team, an adult must transfer the leader's place to the most aggressive of the children.
• A sufficient condition is that for a teenage leader to be able to influence other teens, these teens must spend a significant amount of time daily in the company of this teenage leader.
It turns out that in order to fall under the influence of a teenage leader, schoolchildren should be unoccupied after school and left without adult control. With the lack of control of adults in Russia, everything is in order - the parents are at work, and the teachers-educators have been eliminated as a class. Let's now figure out how many Russian teenagers are doing something after school. After the lessons, children can go in for sports, music, visit various clubs and hobby groups. The most important thing is that these classes should be systematic, that is, they should take the time of teenagers for 3-5 hours daily.
Sports reference number 1. In Russia, sports are very bad. Of the 28,123 million children under the age of 16, 2016 million attended sports clubs in 2,81, and 2015 million in 2,82. (https://russian.rt.com/russia/article/410253-vidy-sporta-deti). That is, only about 9,9%. There is currently no mass children's sport in Russia, and even more so there is no mass enthusiasm for any team sport.
Sports reference number 2. The Accounts Chamber checked how mass sports are developing (publication dated February 21, 2021): perhaps the main and most global conclusion is that physical culture, health and sports services are inaccessible for the majority of the population due to the high cost, insufficient development of the network of sports organizations and their distance from places of residence (https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/allresp/2887461.html#supertop).
Help on circles and music. Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Yarilova said that in 2022, 1 children studied in art schools in Russia (https://800tv.ru/news/kultura/chislo-uchaschihsja-v-muzykalnyh-shkolah-za-000-let -vyroslo-na-360-v-rossii/).
Information about patriotic clubs. Apparently, approximately 4 teenagers are attracted to patriotic clubs (https://edu.gov.ru/national-project/projects/patriot/).
Help for China, Great Britain, Germany. In these countries (and many others), schools are organized on a full-day basis. This means that students are within the walls of the school (and under the supervision of teachers) from 7–8 in the morning until 18–20 in the evening 6 days a week. Schools provide multiple meals. In China, schoolchildren have an obligatory afternoon nap (not in Germany and Britain). Teenagers at school do their homework, spend a lot of time in the library, go in for compulsory sports (this is not physical education, but real training) - 1,5 hours daily (rugby, football, etc.). Many schools have organized compulsory music or theater education. In China, children start working on farms, etc. from the 1st grade. In Germany and Britain, teenagers studying in vocational schools work after school in factories, farms, offices, etc.
Therefore, schoolchildren in China, Britain, Germany and other countries do not need to move around the city to attend sections and music - all this happens on school grounds. And for all students, all services in public schools are absolutely free.
Thus, it turns out that approximately 32% of Russian adolescents (9 adolescents out of 360) are employed on a regular basis outside school hours. The place of professional teachers-mentors for these adolescents is occupied by a coach, a music teacher, organizers of "teenage clubs", etc. Adult mentors, although they do not have a professional educational life guidelines and pave the "vector of the life path" for teenagers as they see it - sports coaches, music teachers, etc. There is no question of any single vision in this case - everyone instructs as he sees fit.
But the remaining 68% of Russian teenagers are generally left to their own devices. And there is an explanation for this - the parents of these teenagers do not have money to pay for very expensive sports, music, etc.
Let's look at the data published on the Internet statistics on the income and expenses of Russian families.
Let's summarize the income and expenses of the average Russian family (mother, father and 1,47 children) in the table:
Remaining free funds: 14 940 rubles.
From this balance, parents need to set aside money for vacations, clothes, sports and entertainment, the purchase of household appliances, repairs, etc., including for the needs of the child. M-yes, Russian families do not live richly. Here is what the analytical center under the Government of the Russian Federation reports about the income of Russian families:
According to Rosstat... the number of working poor... is about 12,1 million people in 2016, or 16,8% of the working-age population, says Vladimir Trubin, an expert at the social policy department of the think tank.
The main share of the poor in Russia are working people with children… says Lilia Ovcharova, director of the Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. About 60% of all the poor are people of working age, of which 90% work
(https://www.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2017/10/31/739932-tochnoe-chislo-bednih-rabotayuschih).
Output. In modern Russia, teachers are deprived of the opportunity to educate adolescents, due to the fact that in the current education system there are no full-time positions that would control the activities of adolescents after school hours and would carry out not educational, but educational work throughout the day from 6 to 19 years. In addition, in the Russian Federation it is legally prohibited for teachers to educate teenagers.
For this reason, in modern Russia, in approximately 32% of teenage groups, the role of leaders is occupied by sports coaches, music teachers and teachers of hobby groups. Without a special education, to the best of their talents, these devotees educate about 32% of Russian teenagers within the framework of the beliefs inherent in each individual coach or music teacher, etc., instill in teenagers their worldview, moral standards, life values and guidelines. These 32% of Russian teenagers receive the vector of the "life path" set by their adult mentors. Of course, you need to understand that not all sports coaches or music teachers, or teachers of various circles are patriots and instill the “necessary” values.
But in the remaining 68% of teenage teams, the role of leaders is occupied by the most aggressive teenagers in the class. And it is these teenage leaders who choose the ideology in which 68% of our children are brought up.
Remark. For me personally, this discovery was a complete shock. We all know that any profession needs to be learned. There are professions that are more difficult to master, and there are easier ones. But no one in their right mind will sit at the helm of an airplane or behind the wheel of a car without training.
It is not difficult to conceive and give birth to a child, but not everyone can mold a good person and citizen with cardinal virtues from this “piece of clay”. Even the ancient Greeks learned this, and the “cult of the teacher” flourished among them - the Greeks tried to give their child to a proven teacher (for money). For example, Alexander the Great was brought up by Aristotle. In modern China, there is also a “cult of the teacher”, and parents make great efforts and spend a lot of money to transfer their children to proven teachers for the education.
In Russia, as well as in other countries, parents delegate the right to raise their child to a school (i.e., the state) so that the state raises a real citizen. And the Russian state, "without declaring war", it turns out, transfers the upbringing of its future citizens (our children) to some arrogant and aggressive teenagers!
I have something to compare. I wasn’t brought up by my parents either – my parents, like all other parents, were at work all day. I, like all the children of the USSR, almost all the time was under the supervision of adult mentors - a coach, counselors and teachers, etc.: morning training (coach), homework (by myself), school (teachers), evening training (coach) ; periodically collecting waste paper, acorns and scrap metal (class teacher). We had a car business at school from the 8th grade. And after school, twice a week, we worked at a car repair plant. Driving was also after school. In the summer, one or two months in the summer labor and recreation camp "Karlygash" ("Swallow"), weeding tobacco or picking strawberries, cherry plums, etc. We went there, by the way, on our own "training" GAZ-53. Since then, we all have category B and C licenses.
In the USSR, the system of control over difficult-to-educate adolescents was also well thought out outside the school - through the head of the class and through the institution of mentors, who were assigned to those who were lagging behind. By the way, this is how the process of controlling teenagers outside the school is organized in British boarding colleges for the upper caste - Hurtwood House, King's School Canterbury, Abbey College Cambridge, Abbey College Manchester, etc.
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