Quoting from an article by František Tichý: "They are in a great mental passivity, somewhere deep inside their comfort zone. When we have planned services and divided tasks at an outing, it still works, fortunately, but any personal initiative is unprecedentedly poor".
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Education without education? By eliminating classical education we are rushing into new crises of humanity
Even the first post-Soviet ministers of education, Piťha, Vopěnka, Gruša and Sokol, spoke about the necessary connection between education and upbringing, about spiritual enrichment or that professional education should carry the moral characteristic of service to others. Instead, however, the doctrines of multiculturalism gradually began to permeate our society and, as a consequence of the weakening influence of culturally educated professionals and politicians, curricula and educational goals began to change, gradually integrating globally promoted trends. These tendencies are mainly those that adapt the requirements to the weakest pupils (programmatic distance from knowledge-based education, etc.). Once classical education, with its efforts to cultivate the intellect, was removed from the path of "progress", nothing prevented education from being reduced to the anti-intellectual instruction of the functionary.
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