Several theses on the problem of reforming education in Russia Oleg Vite Publication date: December 4, 2003 1. The reform of Russian education involves solving two problems: Short-term (“market”): putting finances in order + adapting to demand from a growing economy. Long-term (“civilizational”): “guess” what skills a person should be armed with in order to live fully in the 21st century, and lay the foundations of a globally competitive Russian education system.

State of mutual lies Mikhail Fishman Publication date: December 4, 2003 Even despite the YUKOS case, which provoked a social demand for the redistribution of property, the federal election campaign is, first of all, an illusion. Not the quintessence or culmination of politics, as it would be logical to assume, but its conscious imitation.

Andrey Kolesnikov. Unknown Chubais. Pages from the biography. - M.: Zakharov, 2003. - 160 pp., circulation 20,000 copies. ISBN 5-8159-0377-9 What is hidden under the helmet, or everything you wanted (if you wanted, of course) to know about Anatoly Borisovich Chubais. Now the gaping gap in our knowledge has finally been filled.

Discussions about the essence of national education, about the progress of the reform, about our standards - “homemade bicycles”, about the Golden Canon, the national myth - are like New Year’s gifts: as a rule, the number of topics increases before the elections and the temperature of their discussion boils before our eyes.

Among attempts to define culture, I prefer the one given by Lotman : “culture is a machine designed to preserve old meanings, but due to its fruitful disorder, it generates new meanings.” Few would argue that education is an element of the cultural machine, but its disorder can hardly be called fruitful - the enveloping culture has to compensate for this. 1. Reading the selection in Expert and the responses to it, I can’t help but feel awkward.

Hunger 92 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: December 4, 2003 I don’t remember which of the classics (or maybe it wasn’t a classic at all) called “Decembrite” the depressed state of mind that many experience at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. So here it is - “December”.

One hundred years of solitude of Putin Part 1. Catastrophic inertia of choice Andrey N. Okara Publication date: December 4, 2003 The last question on the topic "Who is Mr. Putin?" At some marginal bookstore, the author of these lines caught the eye of two tattered brochures lying next to each other.

Is education a secondary matter? Irina Samakhova Publication date: December 4, 2003 About the benefits of Oblomovology Not long ago, at the Novosibirsk School of Physics and Mathematics at NSU, we conducted an express survey of high school students on the topic “The Role of V.I.

...Many economists cannot resist the temptation and hide their own lack of understanding behind ranting about irrationality of behavior, ineradicable ignorance, ad hoc shifts in the value system and the like, which, under the guise of a balanced position, simply means admitting defeat. Gary S. Becker Letter 2.