Dress-Code In Schools, Higher Education In Three Years?

A number of absurd statements were made during the “pedagogical council”.

A student should get to grips with the chosen profession starting from the first year in a university, to realize whether it’s their true purpose or not, Lukashenka thinks. In the course of the “pedagogical council”, the ruler spoke about the practice-oriented education, and said that the term of studying in higher educational establishments should be shortened, while excess academic subjects should be eliminated, tut.by writes.

Speaking about the practice-oriented education, Lukashenka set an example of an occurrence in the Agricultural Academy. When the third-year students saw beetroot for the very first time at classes.

— Whom are we preparing? What kind of an agronomist is that? — Lukashenka asked himself a question. — He (a student. — edit.) should duck into this — excuse me for using this non-academic word — this shit, already during the first year. I mean the manure. He must walk in the manure up to the knees, to find out whether it really is his profession or not. He should know it during the first year and quit. And we have the following situation: we are preparing them for some five, six years on an extra-mural basis, the teachers are good, the level of education is high. And they come to work, duck in this manure even deeper than up to the knees […] and realize they are not made for this.

Huge money has been spent by this moment, Lukashenka continues. The practice-oriented education starts since this moment.

Simultaneously, Lukashenka specified, he set the task of shortening the terms of study in higher educational establishments, as well as eliminating subjects that are not useful to a person in his profession. All this make significant saving.

— Why teaching them for five years? — the ruler continued. — I know it at my own example that there’s nothing to do there (in a higher educational establishment – add.) for five years. In three years, it is possible to give the finishing touches to a specialist, if he has come through technical schools, or colleges, where he already worked at production. Three years is enough for higher education.

Lukashenka noted that some professions, like doctors, do make an exception.

— The practice-oriented education is, a person enters a higher educational establishment, comes close to the lathe, smells it — it stinks with grease lubricant, and he knows — this is not what he wants.

And he quits, — Lukashenka said. — Or, he feels it’s something he is made for, by smelling this grease. And then he learns, practices certain skills while getting prepared to independent life in the chosen profession.

The ruler also spoke about the introduction of a dress-code in schools:

— There’s no need to push everyone inside certain boundaries, like it once was. The school uniform — we should give people choice, — Lukashenka contemplated. — However, this doesn’t mean that girls should wear something with their, excuse me, panties visible. Or some jeans, torn on the knees. Well, somewhere you can wear this... But, how is it called...

— A dress-code, — Minister of Education Ihar Karpenka prompted.

— A dress-code. It sounds like a foul word, but it’s the one. It also obliges to choose a hairdo, clothes. It shouldn’t be expensive. It’s not for you, you can take a seat, — he addressed to Interior Minister Ihar Shunevich, who hadn’t sit down yeat after the previous question.

— Or you may start sewing school uniform in those penal colonies of yours!

The audience laughed. Lukashenka explained: prisoners solved the problem with uniform in children’s sports school recently. The “Dynama” school was reported to have received 50 sets of uniform a couple of days ago.

— I said, Ihar Anatolyevich [Shunevich], help is needed. “Yes, we’ll make something”. And it’s complicated clothes for sewing. (…) So, his prisoners sewed perfect clothes! Even for hockey-players. They will soon make helmets and skates, we will have everything our own! I am sure he would have managed with the school uniform, too, if tasked, — Lukashenka assured.

Apparently, the audience took the last words for a joke — and laughed. Meanwhile, in the correctional colony # 4, they clarified that they are already producing hockey sticks. So far, they use Russian unmachined pieces, but they plan to make their own in the future.

However, the ruler does not see a particular problem with the production of the school uniform. Rather — with diversity.

— We need to offer several variants of this school uniform. So that it would be convenient for the children from the fifth column (we will not throw them away, these are our children), and for our ordinary children, of real Belarusians who love our homeland," — Lukashenka said.