The thing I like most about blogging is that it pushes me to be on the wave of educational news all the time. For the umpteenth time surfing the Internet for a new post topic I came across with one article which chews over the problem weather Kazakh schools need or do not need the subject of Russian Literature. According to the Radiotochka online source (http://radiotochka.kz/9762-nuzhna-li-russkaya-literatura-v-kazahskih-shkolah-obzor-kazahoyazychnoy-pressy-ot-radiotochki.html) this discussion flared up when authors of the Kamshy.kz Kazakh- language internet portal addressed the question “Do pupils of Kazakh schools must learn Russian Literature?” to the Minister of Education and Science.
One
of the authors of the Kamshy.kz, keen this issue on the front- burner of the educational sphere arguing that it is widely
discussed among internet users and media world. He said that about 1000 people participated in
the survey that was held on their internet portal. As a result, 40% of the
respondents think that Russian Literature has to be replaced with the World
Literature, 39 % for eliminating this subject from the program at all, and 21%
think Russian Literature worth to learn in our schools (http://qamshy.kz/?p=19997).
Unfortunately,nothing was said about the Minister opinion,which I am really interested in.However in my personal point of
view, Russian Literature is not only about learning language; it
is vast of educational importance. It is invaluable fund of knowledge about
society, relationship, truth, love, reality and experience of people from past
generations. Remember those wonderful novels like Woe from Wit of Griboedov
A.S. about young man who satirizes suppleness of his contemporaries and does
not afraid to tell the truth, for what the society labeled him as madman. The
famous phrase from this novel “I would like to serve, but not to be a servant”
(“Служить бы рад, прислуживаться тошно”) is still remains actual in our
time. Other best remembered novels are philosophical drama The Lower Depth
written by Gorkiy, which raises concern about human essence or The
Stationmaster - novel of Pushkin about destiny of people from the lowest tier
of society. I am not even considering those world famous dramas as War and
Peace or Quiet Flows the Don that narrate about life of whole generations. These
pieces of writing and many others stir intellectually and emotionally, they
bring the sense of morals, believes, values and help to understand deeper the
history of past time life. For me it is hard to imagine that our future
generations will not read them.
The elimination of the
Russian Literature from the school program can negatively affect cultural life;
future generations will loose the interest for going to the Russian drama theatre. On the
contrary, the knowledge of Russian cultural heritage not only broadens the
outlook, but also makes us well-versed political ally. I would accept at least
the idea of introducing World Literature, but I am strongly against to strike
off the Russian literature from the list of school subjects.
My question is to you
dear readers, what do you think about it? Would like your children to be taught
Russian Literature?
Internet sources:
http://radiotochka.kz/9762-nuzhna-li-russkaya-literatura-v-kazahskih-shkolah-obzor-kazahoyazychnoy-pressy-ot-radiotochki.html
http://qamshy.kz/?p=19997
Internet sources:
http://radiotochka.kz/9762-nuzhna-li-russkaya-literatura-v-kazahskih-shkolah-obzor-kazahoyazychnoy-pressy-ot-radiotochki.html
http://qamshy.kz/?p=19997
very interesting topic Zukhra! From my personal view, elimination of Russian Literature from the curriculum is a crime, because it is only while reading Tolstoy, Dostoyevksy and Pushkin, the student can learn a lot about the moral values, about the aethetic side of life, about the depth of thought. From my experience, it is only during the lessons of Russian Literature I began to think critically and challenged my abstract thinking while writing the essays and trying to understand the motives and the feelings of the main characters of a particular book..
ReplyDeleteAlso it is the matter of culture, hence, Russian Literature is not only about the language and fancy stylistic devices, it is about history and philosophy, so exquisively hidden between the pages.