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“Russian education is in a transitional phase” – Medvedev
Published: 30 August, 2009, 12:01
President Dmitry Medvedev focused on the current state of education in Russia during an interview with the national TV Channel Rossiya, saying the annual $57 billion allocated for education should be spent wisely.
Having traveled and lived all over the world, university disciplines yes ... but, more importantly, life was the greatest teacher of experienced learning. AND, therefore, when my sons were born although I was credentialed as a teacher of education in the U.S. system, I consciously chose the WALDORF method of teaching and mostly home schooled due to the indoctrination of "learning" as a tool to destroy imagination. THE KEY ENLIGHTENED RUSSIA LEADERS: IMAGINATION. The imagination of the human being has been purposely corrupted and but of course, the distortion is a planet which appears to be evil - and nothing could be further from the truth: President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin know this since they are, after all, the enlightened ones to lead our 21st Century frame of reference in time ... a sane march into the idea of balance. How to restore the balance which has been intentionally forced into a controlled chaos by those who technologically plug humans into the artificial intelligence of "programming" and therefore, bioengineering billions of unsuspecting human beings from the HIDDEN HANDS of very sick egos with no imagination. My sons through the "Waldorf" learning system were/are multilingual, can play any musical instrument as well as read and write music (virtuoso level), mathematics test scores to prove Newtonian and Galileo level understanding of "numbers | science" and oh what fine art in any media or medium. Simply by growing the imagination from the earliest stage of developmental curiosity and protecting the innocence from all the brand poisoning. Naturally, the chemical poisoning of "food," "water," etc. was not allowed to be an integral part of life. Forcing children to compete as though pit bulls in a dog fight is not 21st Century: tests to intimidate the imagination is not growing the self-esteem.
President Medvedev’s claims regarding the Baltics and the OSCE are depressing. He is reported as saying, for example, that “Governments in the Baltic States…are now essentially pronouncing former Nazi accomplices to be their national heroes who fought for the liberation of their nations.” Why will not the President acknowledge that simplest of all facts, namely, that when the Red Army invaded and occupied the Baltics in 1940, it brought horrific mass terror against civilians with them, the memory of which still absolutely horrifies Baltic peoples? The Red Army did not bring liberty to the Baltics – it took liberty away from them. Then in 1941 another savage totalitarian occupant, the Nazi kind, replaced the Soviets. It, too, brought no liberty. And then the Soviets returned, and again brought no liberty, but initiated even greater mass repressions, deportations and killings than in 1941. No one but no one brought liberty to the Baltics! The Baltics honour neither their Nazi nor their Communist oppressors, and never have done. Some of their men fought in Nazi uniform against Communist oppression – they were not Nazis. Others fought in Soviet uniform against Nazis – they were not Communists. They were ordinary people doing the best they could in a world gone mad where everyone was their enemy and where no matter who won, they themselves would lose. And so it proved to be. When the Baltics totay remember their sacrifice, they are eulogising neither Nazism nor Communism, and it is insulting for President Medvedev to suggest otherwise. As for the OSCE, its Parliamentary Assembly did not pronounce Soviets and Nazis to be co-equal in responsibility for starting WW2. It simply declared August 23, the anniversary date of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, as an annual day of remembrance for all the victims of totalitarianism. Doesn’t the Russian President wish to bow his head before all the victims of totalitarianism?