Liberal Carthage called "EGE"
On December 5, an interesting and important event took place at the Experimental Creative Center (ETC) - a conference on the topic "Cancellation of the Unified State Exam - the first step towards the revival of education." The organizers - the public movement "The Essence of Time" (leader of the movement - Sergei Kurginyan) and the All-Russian public organization "Parent All-Russian Resistance" (chairman - Maria Mamikonyan), responding to the large demand existing in society and the predominantly negative assessment of the so-called "single exam", invited to the conference of school teachers, university professors, members of the public.
Many of them spoke. And not only did they reveal in detail well-known things - for example, that the Unified State Exam leads to fooling children and depriving them of their creative potential, fully following in this the "covenant" of ex-minister Andrei Fursenko to educate not a "person-creator" who was trained by the Soviet school, but "a civilized consumer ". But they also cited eloquent, if not terrifying, facts of the collapse, in which, with its introduction, domestic education found itself. Moreover, not only secondary, but also higher.
The most important thing is that by projecting the current stage of this collapse into the near and medium-term future, they convincingly proved by their bright, caring speeches that the abolition of the Unified State Exam is not a choice between the Soviet and "Bologna" education systems. And between being-development and non-being-undevelopment of our country, plunged into the abyss of a cruel, barbaric experiment not just on living people, but on children, who are deprived of their future with the help of this experiment.
Before stating these facts, we consider it necessary, starting from this shameful and cynical revelation of the scandalously "best minister", to give a number of general considerations that answer the question of who and why needed this innovation. Similar to an ordinary managerial idiocy, it actually contains much deeper and more socially dangerous thoughts in its background.
So, first of all, the USE adherents refer to the "world experience" - this argument for pro-Western idolaters, of course, is important. Only now, it seems that with its help, as well as talking about "a wide range of opportunities" for admission to prestigious universities for children from the field, purely small performers were processed. Or those who naively believed that the customers of this scenario “want the best” and that in order not to succeed “as always”, it is necessary to put together efforts to direct the process in a “constructive” direction.
There are, of course, such "idealists", but "their circle is narrow, and they are terribly far from the people." In fact, the first goal of introducing the USE is the implementation of a long-known destructive technique, which in common parlance is called "reforming into a blackboard": to violate and then destroy the education system and the pedagogical school, revise programs and textbooks, quarrel teachers among themselves and with parents from -for money and not only. And to increase staff turnover, provoking an inevitable outflow of the best of them and, as a result, a critical decline in the overall level of teaching.
Wasn't the same thing done in the post-Soviet years with the economy? Army? Special services (at least before the arrival of Vladimir Putin)? Science? Healthcare? Pension security? Etc.
“Reforming into a blackboard” is the first, but far from the only task, because it is destructive. There is also the second - conditionally “constructive”, if by “creation” we mean the formation of the social order that would meet the interests of the organizers of the collapse. After all, the "man-creator" is distinguished by a broad outlook, which is based on comprehensive basic training. To the “civilized (as well as uncivilized) consumer” all this is unnecessary; The “architects” of this phenomenon do not need a specialist with abstract, imaginative thinking, but a robot in human form, thinking and acting mechanically, in accordance with the programmed algorithm.
A simple example: two biologists are sitting in the adjacent offices. One of them deals with butterflies - he has been working all his life, he knows everything about them; the other - grasshoppers, also all his life and also knows inside and out and even a little more. Everyone is valued as a specialist in their field, but does not understand related ones: the first has no idea about grasshoppers, the second about butterflies, and both together about other insects, as well as about birds, hedgehogs, chanterelles, bunnies, etc.
The "customer" of the plan to "clean up" the forest and turn it into a zone for the construction of luxury real estate comes. He gathers these two and the same other "would-be specialists" and asks them to tell and / or write information about those they know about; he doesn’t report a common goal, but promises generous funding. Those happily agree to share their knowledge, happily count the money received, but then very quickly discover that butterflies, grasshoppers, chanterelles, and many others, including foresters, disappear from the forest in which they conducted research. And finally, the forest itself is being reduced.
And, having discovered this, they do not even know who to blame for this, but they begin to vaguely realize that the money received from the "customer" turned out to be the last one, and no one needs them anymore.
“The insidiousness of differentiation”, in which general, interdisciplinary knowledge and ideas about the surrounding reality, together with the ability to manage, are the lot of the “chosen ones”, “conducting the process” and turning the rest into the object of their dirigism, is the trouble and fate of all narrow specialists.
This is exactly what the USE system prepares. Its "customers" - external and homegrown - firmly know: in order to maintain power over people, they should not only be disunited and atomized, but also not to allow the "atoms" to retain common ideas about the whole process, a kind of look at it from above. For in this case, they will find ways to reunite, and then the "customers" will be fucked!
How far will you go if one of you has a steering wheel from a car, another has a wheel, a third has a gearbox, etc., and the drawing of how to assemble all this is in the locked safe of the newly-minted "demiurge" ?
In order for the "demiurge" to establish and maintain this order, it is necessary to "rub" out loud about globalization and the universalism of living standards. About "universal human values", the market and democracy, which in the West itself has long been called "totalitarian". And daily and hourly to separate "atoms" by narrow spheres of their competence. And one can speak frankly about a common plan only in one's own narrow circle of "dedicated" people, united by common, sometimes criminal interests.
Fantasies of the authors?
No matter how it is! Here is a quote from the book "Return to a Brave New World" which was published back in 1958. “... A fully organized society, the abolition of freedom of choice, thanks to the methodical imposition of behavior, established slavery, which is accepted through regular chemical injections of doses of happiness (drugs - Ed.),” Wrote its author, the prominent globalist Aldous Huxley. - Democracy will change its essence: old and strange traditions (elections, parliaments, supreme courts) will remain, but the basis will be non-violent totalitarianism. Democracy and freedom will be constantly talked about on television and written in the press. ... At this time, the ruling oligarchy and its well-trained elite units of soldiers, police, thought manufacturers and mind manipulators will rule the world at their own discretion. "
The USE is an integral part of this frankly fascist social model, a product of the "creativity" of precisely the fabricators of thoughts and manipulators of consciousness. After all, it is impossible to drive a human creator behind such a “Mozhai”, and Robot in human form, of course. It is only necessary to explain to him that they are driving him in his own interests, to promise a consumer "paradise", to give him some money and pleasures, because, as Herbert Marcuse taught not the theorist, but the practitioner of "non-violent totalitarianism", "control over a person is ensured by the satisfaction of instincts." “Live on the bright side”, “eat, drink, chew…”, take Sialex with Alicaps – and you will be “universal”, in other words, consumer, sch-sh-happiness!
Having no outlook and buried in its "trough", the robot will willingly swallow this bait. And he will even believe that he is very happy.
This is what they seek.
And now about what was said at the conference.
Alexander Ivanov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Petrozavodsk State University, delivered a brilliant report. At the center, he put the exposure of the USE-shnyh myths, the main of which is that this exam supposedly combines the state certification of graduates and a competitive selection of applicants. The speaker convincingly proved that the USE does not and cannot solve either one or the other problem.
From the point of view of attestation, the school has actually canceled the final exams: only two are mandatory - Russian and mathematics; the rest the graduate chooses himself, based on the preferences when choosing a university. And if he does not need physics, chemistry or biology, as he does, say, on historical faculty, then he will not strive to know them. How an applicant for a student card at a technical university will not study history. After all, there is no motivation in the form of an exam that you can fail, and therefore need to prepare!
We are not saying that both of them absolutely “do not need” foreign languages (that is, in fact, they do, but they will learn about this much later, when they try to improve their professional qualifications, but it will be too late).
As a result, none of them will receive the very complex basic education that was discussed above, and if not received, it will turn out to be a brick in the manipulative system built by the “customers” of this “single exam”, whose motivation we have already figured out.
Even compulsory disciplines do not save from the degradation of the exam. Thus, in preparation for the “single exam” in mathematics, future graduates use two “strategies”: those who need this discipline are chasing the maximum scores; for the rest it is enough that there is no deuce. And this is just five completed tasks out of 20. Moreover, about the same level as the speaker cited: “The train left St. Petersburg at 22.30, and arrived in Moscow at 6.50. How long has he been on the road? " Against this background, pipes "A" and "B", which are always memorable to our generation since childhood, are seen as something like prohibitively high mathematics.
As for the “competitive selection”, the situation is even worse here. The tasks are standard and have the same solution algorithm. Therefore, they train on the algorithm and teach them to solve just such. A step to the right or to the left immediately leads the examinees into a state of stupor - they do not know the algorithm, and they did not learn to think. The speaker gave an example of how, as a result of this, a first-year student of the University Mathematics Faculty, who received 42 points on the exam, could not answer the question of how much 2 + (-1) would be. And when Alexander Ivanov, who became interested in this collision, decided to find out whether this was possible, it turned out that even with 56 points in the question asked, you can “blow bubbles”, because the Unified State Exam covers no more than 30% of the school curriculum.
“But try to put the number in the wrong cell…”, a student sitting next to her, the daughter of one of us, who two years ago experienced all the “delights” of the “single exam” on her own experience, said, shaking her head, philosophically, competently.
“In the Soviet Union, the most important issue was the training and retraining of teachers, which no one is involved in today. Schools are being closed en masse by merging them, forcing the principals in charge of the colossus located in several buildings and in different districts to engage not so much in the educational process as in the administrative leadership. And this has a detrimental effect on the quality of education, "- revealed another" hot spot "of the" reformed "education system, Doctor of Philology, Professor Dmitry Ivinsky. From his speech, it followed that the statistics of passing the exam in schools are carefully classified, and this is done for socio-political reasons, so that the emergence of "failed" cities, districts and even subjects of the Federation is not revealed. Corruption, he believes, has not disappeared anywhere, but only changed its form. First, instead of several dozen prestigious universities, where this problem existed before the introduction of the USE system, today every school where the “single exam” is passed has become a "corruption-intensive" point. The time will come, the time will surely come when all the possibilities in this area will be recognized, and "strong business executives" in the field will realize that these points are located on their territory and will naturally lay their paws on them.
Secondly, the improvement of Internet technologies is becoming a separate problem, which already today turns obtaining the necessary points on the Unified State Exam into a very profitable and practically “safe” “business”. It's only the beginning!
“There are three types of vandalism in relation to culture,” began his speech, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Alexander Volkov. - You can burn a book, you can distort its interpretation. And it is also possible - and in this, in his opinion, the essence of the Unified State Exam - to create a system in which it is impossible to master even this very book, not to mention other achievements of material and spiritual culture. " We have not formalized the exams before - we looked at whether the student or student is able to think, whether he or she is able to work independently. From this and proceeded. It was this that was the main thing, and not formalism and clericalism, which if they encourage anything, then the teacher's dullness, when schoolchildren, who want to learn something additional for admission, are en masse with tutors. And the teacher, meanwhile, is training potential failures so that their number does not exceed the acceptable 7% threshold by which his work is assessed. And not only him alone, but also schools, and districts, cities, regions, for which the governor asks from his deputy for public education.
No less interesting were the speeches of the director of the first non-state school in Russia - the Orthodox gymnasium "Radonezh" Mikhail Tishkov, who paid special attention to the threat of the commercialization of school education, as well as Galina Zverkina, Ph.D. students of technical universities.
What to do in this situation?
All speakers, as well as the leader of the "Essence of Time" movement Sergei Kurginyan, who summed up the conference with a bright, emotional co-report, highlighted the procedure and peculiarities of bringing the fight against the Unified State Exam to the level of big politics, without which, in his opinion, no progress in this burning issue happen, agreed on the following. Necessary:
- to return the final exams in all the main subjects, moreover, oral, in which the graduate, if he copied, is able to say something intelligible only when he knows the subject (for some reason, the well-known aphorism of Peter the Great came to mind, demanding that officials “ not according to what was written, so that everyone's foolishness would become visible to everyone ”- nothing is new under the Moon!);
- if necessary, create interagency commissions for taking these exams - as has already been tested with the current USE system;
- to restore the system of entrance examinations, moreover, on the territory of universities, thereby avoiding the transformation of schools into hotbeds of rampant corruption, encouraged by the local authorities;
- and before all this - to abolish the rule of two waves when enrolling according to the results of the exam, which should be carried out in on-line mode. All the participants of the conference of a technical profile, who are familiar with Internet technologies firsthand, unanimously declared that all the technical possibilities for this are available - if you just want to.
It seems that if we want vigorous development of our country - and we certainly want this, experiencing and taking to heart two and a half decades of devastation caused by the collapse of the USSR and "market reforms", it is time to act.
And it is no coincidence that the liberals defending the Unified State Exam energetically fidgeted: literally the other day, their "ideological leader" Yaroslav Kuzminov, rector of the Higher School of Economics, was worried about the allegedly low level of school Olympiad winners. After all, it was they who were named at the conference, in fact, the only legal way for talented and hardworking children to enter universities, bypassing the exam. The liberal "cat" knows whose meat it has eaten and eats!
The proposed measures must be implemented, uniting the general public for these purposes, which is what the Parent All-Russian Resistance is going to do. And then the last doubts will disappear that the LIBERAL "CARPHAGEN" will sooner or later BE DESTROYED!
Vladimir Pavlenko - Doctor of Political Sciences, full member of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems (AGP).
Vladimir Shtol - Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Full Member of the AGP, Head of the Department of State-Confessional Relations of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
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