Children take exams: graduation, USE, entrance, graduate from school and enter universities. There are furious discussions among teachers: is the unified state exam good or disgusting (p. 8)? But there is another question: why do they go to universities? To get an education or a piece of paper about it? To learn to think or for the sake of salvation from the army? It is not the talents of children that compete for access to education in Russia, but parental connections and wallets. The corruption capacity of the education market is $618 million (p. 15). And education is not worth the money: textbooks are old, teachers are often unqualified, academic success of students and their future career depend not on talent and diligence, but again on connections and money. And if the university is medical, and the graduate who became a doctor for "grandmothers" is a surgeon (p. 12)? As a result of personal heroic efforts, some modern Lomonosov can get to Moscow and study with copper money, but the education system does not wait for a talented student, does not welcome him, does not help him, does not see his own inferiority and often does not want to change (p. 5) . But it happens in a different way (p. 18). Or will Russia follow its own, special path?
