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Bulat Nureyev - about education
“The idea of life-long learning—training and retraining that lasts a lifetime—is becoming increasingly close to business leaders at both the individual and corporate levels. Personal motivation and situation can be very different: from increasing your value in the market as a hired manager to forming new businesses or changing existing ones as a founder or head of a company. There are plenty of high-quality online programs from leading educational institutions from around the world, as well as courses from expert practitioners in a particular field of business. Along with them, there is also a dishonest approach, a kind of deception - both on the part of students and on the part of course founders. <…>.
The main challenge facing business schools in Russia is to teach adults to learn. In international practice, this is taught in school. Russian students, coming to the program, do not always set educational goals on their own. At the same time, they may have enormous business experience and be much stronger than their foreign colleagues as managers. This contrast is a feature of our cultural and historical stage.
Teaching adults to learn is a big scientific task; a lot of literature on this topic has recently appeared in the world. How can we make sure that a person is independent in education and sets his own goals? So that he appeals to his applied, practical experience? Or, if he does not have applied experience in this area, he could rely on educational experience within the program.
At the same time, management knowledge is very pragmatic; it should expand and complement activities. Consider, for example, entering the Chinese market. We do not strive for the student to be able to maintain a dialogue about the peculiarities of party intrigues within the Communist Party or to understand the intricacies of Confucian philosophy. We prepare a person like a boxer: he must understand how the opponent moves, how he avoids attacks, what feints he has, what physical condition he will be in by the fourth round.”