Inaccurate barbarians

Unanimity is officially introduced in Russia: the Duma finally approved what people can teach and what is not

We will call a spade a spade by our props, until this is beyond the scope of the Criminal Code: “Amendments to the Law on Education” adopted on March 16 by the State Duma, this is a law on censorship, contrary to its ban in Art. 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and if we recall Kozma Prutkov, then the "Project on the introduction of unanimity in Russia."

“The legislation of the Russian Federation,” the authors of the bill in the explanatory note complained, “does not contain the provisions that determine the legal basis for educational activities, the procedure for its implementation, the requirements for its participants.”

Contrary to the usual in the note, there were no links even to foreign experience, attracted by the ears: this still has not been not only in Russia, but also anywhere in the world.

In all countries, laws in the field of education are in force, but there we are talking about issuing title documents: certificates and diplomas of a universally recognized model. And the enlightenment of legislation is impossible to determine, and the decision of the Duma to call educational activities everything that “is carried out outside the framework of educational programs” is the frame and the first part of the formula “everything that is not allowed is prohibited”, that is, censorship.

An attempt to introduce such regulation in the twentieth century was undertaken in the USSR. Any public speech was to be “filled” (from the word “Glavlit”), but those departmental instructions wore a bashful Grif “DSP” (for official use), and openly prohibiting educational activities still did not occur to the Bolsheviks.

I see two reasons for this absurd initiative. The main thing is the “bridegrooms” of the current deputies of the Duma on the eve of the autumn re -election, a kind of obscurantist competition.

The second is situational: the trigger was the creation of a “free university” on the Internet, the backbone of which was made up of teachers, expelled from the “tower” for unreliability (I also lead the seminars on the “philosophy of journalism” there and are not going to refuse it).

If in the first edition of the project it was assumed that “educational activities are entitled to carry out individuals, individual entrepreneurs and (or) legal entities subject to the requirements provided for by this Federal Law, as well as other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation”, then in the third, approved edition, this formula adopted a more stringent form: “Educational activities are carried out by state authorities, other state bodies, and other local bodies, and local bodies of the local Self -government authorized by them, as well as the right to implement individuals, individual entrepreneurs and (or) legal entities subject to the requirements provided for by this Federal Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation. ”

“The educational activities of state authorities” are nonsense, the taxpayers contain and suffer not for this, but the meaning of the formula is that the “overseering bodies” (they will probably be attributed to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science) will read it with the implied addition of “only”. “The order, conditions and forms of implementation of educational activities,” the law reads, “as well as the procedure for monitoring it by the Government of the Russian Federation” - and such a decision will establish the permissive order of any public speaking for all “individuals and legal entities”.

It should be expected that until June 1, 2021, when the law, as expected, will enter into force, the Federal Assembly will have time to accept the draft amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, or even in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, about punishment for “partisans from education”.

The explanatory note to the bill did not hide the goals of its initiators:

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“The lack of legal regulation creates the prerequisites for the uncontrolled implementation by anti-Russian forces in the school and student environment under the guise of educational activities of a wide range of propaganda events, including those supported from abroad and aimed at discrediting state policy, revising history, and undermining the constitutional system.”

This is a familiar paranoia

And the reservation in the law that “the use of educational activities is not allowed to incite social, racial, national or religious growth ... as well as to encourage actions that contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation,” is unnecessary: ​​such actions are already punishable, although this ban is acting (for example, for television talk-shows) very selectively. Apparently, there will also be repressions against the “partisans”, but there will be no legal protection against them: there is now little hope for the Constitutional Court.

And yet. At the dawn of the Enlightenment in 1784, Immanuel Kant defined him as “a person’s output from a state of minority ... The reason for which is not a lack of reason, but a lack of determination to use it without leadership from the outside ... have the courage to use his own mind!”

In history, including Russia, there were many attempts from the authorities to ban their subjects to think. Some of them led to a dramatic lag from the developing world, but not one was ultimately crowned with success: such a ban is contrary to the nature of man.