Lukashenko: Teacher should be more than holy man at school

The Big Pedagogical Council in Minsk is in the center of attention of the public and experts. Topics and issues that were voiced the day before, affect almost every Belarusian family.

And yet the main message is in the global social, educational and economic strategy of education in the country, which concerns the future not only of a pupil, student, parents and family, but of the whole country.

Training of personnel for the real sector of the economy should begin long before the first year of university. Only when working in a dense connection (school - vocational education - university) the Belarusian labor market gets the very golden reserve.

The teachers of the country understand the task set before the industry and on the threshold of the new academic year assure that there are practically no rough edges left. This was confirmed at the Republican Pedagogical Council with the participation of the President.

The centralized examination and other innovations of the previous years have been dealt with. We have felt a greater presence and interest of the personnel customers themselves. This is not the effect of a year or two. Experience was gathered along the whole way of development of Belarusian education without breaking a single link.

More than 50 thousand specialists. Colleges and higher educational institutions train this number of specialists for the needs of the economy every year. Moving away from “studying for the sake of studying”, they increasingly rely on potential and interest in order to get ready for the real world.

The head of state is convinced that there is nothing to talk about the effectiveness of education without prestige, without raising the authority of teachers and school management.

“A teacher should be more than a holy man at school! Therefore, we must do the maximum in this regard. And first of all you must do it, you (teachers - ed. note) must want it, and we (the authorities - ed. note) must give all possible support. A teacher is the President's man. Therefore, 50% of your workload is my workload. We will not allow anyone to leave the teacher alone with these issues,” said the head of state.