Vladimir Pozner criticized the Soviet school, stated, that the education system in the USSR brought up “like-minded, people acting in the same way ".
“Parents should educate first of all. When they shift it to kindergarten and school, you get a generation of people who think the same way, identically acting people, what the Soviet system was striving for. The Soviet school killed in the child ", – Volodya said.
Smiles at me, when the current young bloggers, at best, only months of those who have studied in a Soviet school in the first grade begin to talk something unintelligible about Soviet education.
“The younger the blogger – the more he suffered under Stalin“(from)
Or like old migrants like Posner, not a day in it, those who have not studied at school in the Soviet Union begin to do the same.
I will not point a finger at Posner, (although I'm talking about him, studied at an American school) but some of these return migrants began to speak Russian, only when they were 16-17 years. And they will prove something to you and me now?
How does Volodya know, as taught in the Soviet school, if he did not study in it? Or is he something, from someone, heard somewhere?
Like Novodvorskaya, who said about sex:
“Sex is not very exciting.. It's boring: I read!“
Does the same Posner really think, that the Soviet school was killing individuality? Ideologically, it can and can, albeit a stretch, but not more…
Such statements by Posner speak only of the great habit of the liberals to denigrate all Soviet.
So they try – Maria Gaidar generally stated,that in a kindergarten in the USSR she felt the spirit of totalitarianism, since the children were planted there at the same time on the potty! And this Volodya Pozner in his 85 trying to follow the ideological line from Washington – sad sight! Really don't understand, what for?
A little about the comparison of Soviet and American education
I studied at the Soviet school, did not notice anything like this, what posner said. The school gave fundamental knowledge, a reasonable person left the Soviet school, if I could handle, and homework was taught to independently solve problems.
In terms of personality education, Soviet schools were completely analogous to Western schools., and indeed, schools around the world. This is the specificity of the mass education system, it simply cannot be built otherwise. The system of personal governing education practiced by the nobility and rich people could not be transferred to the system of universal education..
The peculiarity of the Soviet school was that, that she gave the opportunity to children who want to deepen their knowledge of this knowledge to receive, and those who did not want to hold out by the ears on threes at least until the eighth grade, after which the child went to vocational school (not the worst option for a child, by the way).
The Soviet school was appreciated throughout the world for, that is capable of giving birth to intellectuals. Which then, after the collapse of the Country in the 90s, flowed to the West. US Science on 99% consists of emigrants. It's easier for them to outbid a scientist than to teach him.
Read Kennedy's Quote – someone pulled his tongue?
Maybe John Fitzgerald Kennedy Was Wrong, decided to bow before the USSR or his level of education did not allow to really assess the level of Soviet education? by the way, John attended Harvard University, London School of Economics and Political Science and Princeton University. It says something?
What speaks about the quality of Soviet education, that outstanding inventions and scientific discoveries were made not only by a limited circle of people who attended elite schools and institutions within Moscow, but also people from the most remote regions of the country, where they actually got their education.
Identically thinking and acting alike sent Gagarin into space, of them the same Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, Vysotsky and even Novodvorskaya…, EVERYONE – from cleaning lady to editor-in-chief” echo of Moscow”, “rain”, “Novaya Gazeta” and even, sorry Lord, “Kommersant” and RBC… Where did these white and fluffy ones come from??
For exceptions, confirming the rule “serosti” Soviet education will be a bit too much, do not find? Almost ALL of those, whom Posner interviewed and subsequently speaks of them with admiration – they should be according to Posner “dullness”, equally thinking! Something does not fit comrade Posner!
During the Soviet era, the only thing that was poorly taught in schools, it was english, but you can understand it, students did not go abroad on vacation, how their peers from the same Germany did it. But teaching at school later allowed you to improve your English proficiency on your own.. Plus, in the USSR there were also NUMEROUS schools with in-depth study of the language.
The school has always only provided the level of knowledge and outlook, creative abilities were developed in additional activities in sports, creative sections and circles. Now all this DOP costs a lot of money for parents.. So there is nothing for Pozner to hate the Soviet school, everything was ok there, overall even better, than now.
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Or maybe Posner is simply not talking about the quality of Soviet education itself, which was very good and covered the entire population of the country? Rather, it annoys him, that the Soviet system really brought up morality in people, patriotism. The Soviet school did not kill individuality. There were many bright and outstanding personalities in the Union.
Apparently it is – in his assessment of the Soviet school, Posner nevertheless spoke in a purely educational aspect, ideological so to speak. Of course, the ardent anti-Soviet would like it and could not.
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