Future of Education: Integration of Formal with Unknown

Words of the academician, outstanding Russian scientist - mathematician and ship builder Alexey Nikolaevich Krylov could become epigraph and manual to implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “About measures for realization of a state policy in education and sciences“: “Force and capacity of science are boundless, its practical applications for the benefit of mankind are also boundless”.

However other phrase of the great scientist characterizes ways and measures for the solution of large-scale problems: “... if some absurd became routine, than the more absurd it is, the more difficult is to destroy it”.

Our is the staff of life

Thought that work created a man seized the world long time ago.

The fact is that study is the hardest work. To make it fruitful it is required to learn to study, that is to develop requirement to work since childhood. Therefore labor education which is inseparably linked with patriotic was always kernel of enlightenment and education.

Industrialization in the USSR, the Japanese "economic miracle", successes of China and failure in the Russian Federation serve confirmation to this truth. Catastrophic retardation in high technologies created by intense work of scientists, engineers and workers synthesizing scientific knowledge and experience of mankind is also natural.

Epidemic of catastrophes and accidents is connected with loss of critical technologies becoming history together with their carrier – working man who has no replacement.

The Russian and Soviet competitive education system which was till the end of the 60s years of last century adjusted on over effort at achievement of the highest result was a kind of filter for lagging behind and a springboard for gifted pupils.

Hard work on mastering of concepts (understanding, storing) the Ministry of Education and Science eases by futile development (acquaintance) of a subject sufficient for “office plankton”, but unacceptable for the professional expert.

Entertainment and different types of activity reducing training load of pupils serve today alternative of labor activity opening talent, developing ability and informative needs.

Organizers of entertainment

In a frequency dictionary of a standard of elementary general education there is no such concept as work, as well as in the bill concept “About education in the Russian Federation” – one can’t find such concept as education.

Labor intensity of the standard program made for lagging behind and children with limited possibilities of health other-wordly for correctional school nurses indiscriminateness to themselves in strong and so-so advanced pupils.

The teacher has no possibility to be “the conductor in the world of knowledge”, he is assigned a part of “the director of educational activity” and organizer - "stage manager" of educational tasks.

It is easy to receive proves of this truth when studying the brochure of the department of education of Moscow under the name “About standards in simple way” explaining that education modernization provides “optimization of personnel potential and translation of the subject contents by means of "external" resources”.

Absurdity of replacement of intelligence of the teacher by computer on the scale of all educational system of Russia is seen implicitly behind “simple decision”.

Unfortunately, new Pestalozzis are not aware of the fact that heuristic programs, "artificial intelligence" realize only one function of a person - search of known versions of solution of standard tasks. However the deputy chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on education and science Lyubov Dukhanina continues to believe that tests of computer evaluation of sketchy knowledge - our future.

Guessing game – the Unified State Examination with coaching forming skills unhealthy and dangerous on production became absurd result of such policy.

Incompatibility of technologies of evaluation at final and entrance examinations became catastrophe for education, science and production.

According to one of the tutors level of preparation to the Unified State Examination on mathematics is catastrophic. The same with physics and chemistry. Pupils talk about physics as about some sacral subject, other-wordly for studying. Graduates of MGTU named after Bauman can't read old drawings, we are not talking about drawing new.

Possibility of five Russian universities to enter by 2020 the first hundred of the world rating seems foggy taking into account the Unified State Examination, chance of loss of present positions is quite real.

Integration with the unknown

Inward digging as a sign of professionalism of the XX century has exhausted itself in the century of global integration of education, science and production.

Trajectory of learning when the problem is studied from different, sometimes unexpected foreshortenings as well as readiness to change object of research and development as soon as it is required is today incomparably more important, than narrow specialization.

Inability of scientists to see technological incompatibility of functions and to cancel the development of projects of the Unified State Examinations and the rocket “Bulava” which threw education and rocket production back for decades can serve as an example of it.

It is possible to succeed in solid state physics, but become grave-digger of science and education on a post of the federal minister. On the contrary, Lenin's mighty intelligence even without special knowledge overcame crisis of physics, ruin and illiteracy of Russia.

The bill “About education in the Russian Federation” chose from all communications of integration penetrating contour of education, science and production only "scientification" of higher education institution “by use of new knowledge and achievements of science and technology” (article 74).

Thereby the bill dooms higher education institutions to stagnation in the educational technologies opening space of knowledge for professors.

Theses of pragmatist approach and the theory of stage-by-stage formation of intellectual actions having become revelation for new minister Dmitry Livanov serve as psychological basis of integration technologies.

Historical experience shows: future belongs to programs of integration of training and education in the collective where the main character - the teacher - will involve potential of strong pupils approaching lagging behind pupils to own level.

Brilliant result of known teacher Mikhail Schetinin in integration of uneven-age collective in the process of training and labor education is known today to the whole world. Foreign trainers who have forced the Russian ones from all sports of records away own such technologies.

The teacher of literature from St. Petersburg Nikolay Ilyin intensifies creativity of children by deductive method of studying on key details of works of literary classics. This method is used by historians, scouts and inspectors.

The idea of fragmentary approach of universities of the USA consists in that students independently establish connection between lectures and chosen courses using scanning vector of integration of already known material with the unknown.

As a whole the effect consists in integration of formal (obligatory) education with independent - informal. Galaxy of those who got military education is entered by such composers as Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, the artist Vereshchagin, the surgeon Pirogov, cybernatist Berg and others.

Subject disciplines: language, copybooks, literature, mathematics, engineering courses integrate stages of learning at school and in higher education institution. Every of them can become, as calligraphy for Stephen Jobs, a launching point for new field of knowledge.

Alexey Krylov 's precept about role and place of mathematical education says: “Real engineer should trust his eye more than to the formula; he should remember words of the naturalist and philosopher Huxley: “Mathematics, like the millstone, grids what is spilled into it”.

The Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements (FIPI) confirms phenomenon of key link of integration. Elimination of the integrating subject – literature - from obligatory subjects of the Unified State Examinations destroys framework of maintenance of a kernel of school education which is made except literature, by the Russian language and mathematics.

“It’s hardly possible that we will receive good mathematician of a zombie familiar with literature on the names of works”, - vice-principal of the Moscow school No. 444 with profound studying of mathematics and informatics Olga Shadrikov considers.

It is possible to recollect ability of the genius of theoretical physics Landau to translate the most difficult models of processes into accessible for communication language.

An open secret

There’s an impression that officials who prepared "Decree" with assignment to the Government of the Russian Federation to develop a package of measures on identification and support of young talents by June of this year and the concept of development of mathematical education in December, 2013 knew in advance about their soon resignation.

The terms (July of the current year) of approval of the federal state standards and introduction into the State Duma of the bill “About education in the Russian Federation” with defects of the Unified State Examination which Vladimir Putin pointed out guard. Thus the Government of the Russian Federation should develop and realize measures for increase of efficiency of the Unified State Examination only by the end of the year.

Standards and the bill received hostile reception of the society are urged to create zombies - physically healthy ”citizens of the world” with elementary skills of safety measures and freedom of choice of the easiest from three levels of studying of the subject – integrated, basic and profile.

Today the bill is far from system of principles of training and education, requirements to science on judgment and introduction of the best practices and high educational technologies. For the official it can become the guide for loading of educational institutions with additional reporting.

The cunning of introduction and adoption of the destructive bill on the eve of deputy vacation consists in refusal to eliminate hundred remarks and amendments. When the law will come into force on January, 1, 2013 it will be already late to be indignant.

Such practice became an open secret after adoption of notorious Federal Law #122 about monetization of social benefits and not less odious # 94 and #83. Such is an order.

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