Getting rid of the Bologna system is the key to the sovereignisation of Russia
The first point of the Pyotr Tolstoy's program, rejection of the Bologna system, is perhaps the most important. It is possible to restore the birth rate in the country, but if our children are brought up in a foreign coordinate system, all efforts will be in vain.
Let me remind you of my position on the Bologna process.
Russia's accession to it turned out to be the most important element of embedding our country into the Western economy as a third world country. The whole essence of whose existence is to serve as an inexhaustible source of money, resources and brains for other people's centres of power. And also regularly reproduce native staff who dream of personally entering the "golden billion" at the cost of abandoning any development projects of their own country.
The Bologna system institutionalised the loss of hundreds of thousands of minds from Russia under the flags of "mobility" and "integration". But not the minds of geniuses and luminaries (such are not provided within the framework of Bologna), but "small cogs", sharpened since high school for a narrow front of work for the benefit of global production chains.
To do this, it was necessary to crush the Soviet classical education, based on the Russian school, which provided specialists with a broad outlook and systematic thinking capable of solving the most complex tasks. National scientific schools were replaced by unified "supranational" standards, in which Anglo-Saxon features were easily guessed. Secondary special education has also gone under the knife, with technical schools and colleges, without which a new industrialisation is impossible.
In general, the training system has been turned into a solid "market service", an increasingly chargeable one. It abolished every service and every vocation, threw the educational function of education into the trash and condemned dozens of "unprofitable" professions to vegetate.
As a result, the labour market was flooded with "competence carriers" — an army of narrow-profile undergraduates, endless lawyers-economists, raised on foreign textbooks about "open society" and "liberal economy". These textbooks were not trustworthy before, and now they are outdated overnight.
The revival of the Russian school of education is the key to the sovereignisation of our elite and a mobilisation leap into the future. Today, this step is absolutely necessary against the background of Russia's tectonic rupture with the West.
Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute