The future of Russian school

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleБудущее русской школы
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Education, Science and Orthodoxy
6. Publication date 2006
7. lemma work Перевезенцев Сергей Вячеславович [Author]. The future of Russian school
8. lemma manifestations Портал Слово
9. Keywords faith and knowledge
10. Citations
    1. https://portal-slovo.ru/pedagogy/37891.php
11. Lemma body

    1. As the author argues, school should transfer to the younger generation not just the knowledge accumulated by previous generations, but, first of all, those basic values on which our people arose, developed and still exist.

       There are three main principal components, or three principles of such a possible new philosophy of education, based on the basic value system. The first principle is Orthodox worldview as a methodological basis of the education system, and pedagogy as a science. In this case, it is implied that Orthodoxy is not just one of the subjects of study. All subjects are taught as meaningful through the prism of the Orthodox worldview. At the same time, the course under the conditional name "Basics of Orthodox Culture" can be quite well taught as a separate subject. Moreover, it is quite possible, and even necessary, to teach the foundations and history of other religions, but they are meaningful from the standpoint of Orthodox methodology.

       The second principle. Patriotism, love for the Motherland, the idea of serving the Motherland. Russia is by its nature, geography, history, a warehouse of a national character a great power. Therefore, the ideal of Great Russia, the great Motherland must be returned to the public consciousness and, in particular, to the philosophy of education, as one of the components of the general concept of the great meaning of life and as the highest step in expressing the collectivist, community character of the Russian consciousness.

       The third principle. The ideal of a free, morally responsible person. In Orthodox understanding, man is a divine creation, and therefore, bears the greatest, almost divine responsibility for himself and for the whole world. A truly free person is only one who understands the limits of her freedom. Consequently, real freedom begins only when a person knows about the existence of some very rigid boundaries, which he does not have the right to overstep. Therefore, it is necessary to return to the life and practice of the modern education of the Orthodox understanding of the essence of the human person.