The university is closed. Everyone went to the front...

The more I look at the fuss around the initiative aimed at combining university education and military service, the more and more I feel a kind of déjà vu.

We've been through all this before.

Arakcheev, military settlements, military service on the job, two in one - a soldier and a worker. Exactly two hundred years ago.

And the deplorable results of such innovations are already well known from history: neither a soldier nor an unimportant cultivator.

Here, therefore, the same result is quite likely: having spread military service over the entire period of study, they will not allow us to normally engage in either study or military service, and will completely deprive us of both education and the army.

No matter how hard I strain my imagination, I still can’t combine a three-month-old soldier-officer and a three-month-old student into a single whole.

Of course, they will tell us a lot of clever words that this will contribute to the influx of highly qualified specialists into the army, that this is methodologically sound and will only improve the quality of training. Future engineers will finally leave stuffy classrooms for freedom and living space, they will be able to consolidate their skills practically, and see live technology.

Well, okay, let’s say this will happen with technical specialists. Where are we going to put the rest? After all, military departments also exist in classical universities. Philologists, historians and others, what will they probe in the army? A shovel? Develop knowledge of the great and mighty? Engage in historical reconstruction of the labor of the inhabitants of those same military settlements in modern conditions?

However, the worst thing, no matter how you look at it, is from the point of view of the educational process schedule.

In the summer there are holidays, you need to recover, gain strength, and, after all, live. After all, we are faced with young people, and student years are a great time for friendship, for making acquaintances, for feeling independent.

In the middle of the school year? What about classes? After all, if everyone leaves in parts, then what is the point of the professor coming into an empty classroom. This means that we will reduce the hours of the same teachers, increase the distance learning, and actually transfer all students - military villagers - to correspondence courses??

What will the session turn into? How will it be possible to monitor the progress of a student’s education if he constantly hangs up a sign that says “he has gone to the front”?

It seems that no one thinks about such things, just as they usually don’t think about the subtleties, about the meaning, about why all this is for?

On the news, only approving responses are heard. And it seems that the motto “loyalty without flattery” has not become a thing of the past. 200 years have passed, and we are still at the same time again.

Maybe we have a war ahead? If yes, then I can guess which one. Crimean, it seems.