Low education

I would like to talk to you about our education. How is it that our school education is one of the best in the world , and our university graduates are among the worst? Why can’t graduates of our universities compete with foreign ones? What happens to our schoolchildren during their five years at universities that they manage to lag so monstrously behind their peers from other countries? Let's try to find out what a university is, what happens in it, what its task is and how it copes with it. In our country they believe only in higher education more than in God. “ Study, otherwise you’ll end up working as a janitor ,” “ No one will hire you without a diploma ,” “ You’ll graduate from a prestigious university and get a prestigious job .” Many of you have heard these phrases, some still believe in them, and some still hear them. What does higher education give? Statistics show that people with V/O earn only 20% more than people without it. Such an effort upon admission, five years of study and such a meager result. Makes you think, doesn't it? This is some kind of national madness. People who fail to get into college think they are failures, which of course they are not. This is too common a thought in society to ignore. People who were able to enter the university think that they are the elite and their happy life is now a foregone conclusion, they just need to graduate from the university: a good job, an expensive car, business trips abroad and everything like that. This is also an illusion. In fact, our university is a kindergarten for adults. You can go to classes, or you don’t have to go. You can study, or you can not study. Students are proud that with a note they can pass any exam in a couple of days. For them, this serves as proof of their intelligence. Big mistake. My work experience shows that at maximum voltage, real work can be compressed by a maximum of two times. If you put in the effort and work 8-9 hours a day, you can get the job done in half the time you would at your normal pace. Hence the conclusion: if you passed all the exams in two weeks, at most you had enough work to do for a month. Those. you spent a whole semester “learning” what you could have learned in just a month. A year of study (two semesters) - in two months. And five years of university - in a year. University is a legitimate opportunity in the eyes of society to postpone the search for a job for five years and have plenty of idleness. At the same time, it’s normal if you live with your parents or eat snacks in the dorm. Your peers are the same slackers as you, so nothing destroys this ideal world. Student life is a golden time.Why shouldn’t it be golden when you are already an adult, and they feed you, water you, clothe you, and give you a place to live. This is life. It’s true that sometimes they force you to go to classes and pester you about exams, but that’s how it is—you can be patient. Imagine that you have inherited an old apartment. You can renovate it and rent it out, receiving a stable income for the rest of your life. Or you can sell it and spend the money in five years. Only five years will fly by quickly, and you will again find yourself broke. If everything goes easily, this is a reason to wonder if you are missing something.

University

Many people don’t even know how a university differs from an institute. The most common opinion is that the university teaches everything, and the institute teaches one thing. Which, of course, is not true. An institute is a higher education institution that has a specialization. The Institute of Physics, for example, can contain faculties: mathematics, physics, radio-physics, but cannot contain a history department. A university, on the contrary, has no specialization and can consist of faculties very distant from each other: history, mathematics, foreign languages, literature. But at each faculty, both at the university and at the institute, you are taught in one specific area. What does the university teach? This is a very difficult question, so let’s try to answer a simpler question first: what is the university trying to teach? Whether he succeeds or not is another question. As far as I was able to find out, the university sees its task in three things:

1. Give you a general higher education. Another cultural level, you understand! Everything that will be useful to you: history, life safety, culture, economics, fundamentals of law, physical education...
2. The science. All students write coursework and dissertations. If you entered a master's program, you must engage in scientific work.
3. Professional education. Graduates of our universities work as directors of banks, factories, or, in extreme cases, as highly qualified specialists at some enterprise.

Looks great, just lacks a golden crust.