MINSK, 6 October (BelTA) – The contemporary school should be up-to-date and should meet modern requirements, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with finalists of the national contest of the best pedagogical workers Teacher of the Year 2009 on 6 October. The President stressed that the key purpose of school is to give children an education that will not lie idle. It is necessary to avoid academic manners and abstractedness. “A Latin proverb says that one has to learn to live instead of learning for the sake of education,” remarked the head of state. Lessons should not be restricted to repeating textbook information or old lecture notes. They should give the latest information in order to keep up with students, said the President. “Students today are totally different from what we once were. They are more knowledgeable, more advanced as they say”. They can easily handle computers and other modern technologies, getting huge amounts of information not only from textbooks. Alexander Lukashenko believes it is necessary to focus more on language and computer skills. “Every graduate has to be able to write and speak his own language correctly, speak a foreign language fluently and use information technologies for education and in everyday life,” he said. The modern school system should also shape a whole independent personality. It should teach children to acquire new knowledge and use it in practice. It should teach them to think and defend their point of view, it should teach them to be responsible for what they say, teach them to be persistent in reaching goals, immunizing them against idleness and wrongdoing, stressed the head of state. БЕЛТА
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