Особенности учебного процесса в разных странах, Академическая мобильность

2. Education

Роль высшего образования для развития личности. 

The Significance of University-level Education for Person’s Development.

Особенности учебного процесса в разных странах.

Академическая мобильность.

2. Высшее образование в России и за рубежом. Мой вуз.Студенческие международные контакты: научные, профессиональные, культурные.

Higher / University-level Education in the Russian Federation and Abroad.

Siberian State University of Railway Engineering.

Students International Contacts: getting into research, professional knowledge and cross-cultural relations

Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide. Education has been society’s change agent. History provides examples that reveal the link between social needs and the goals of education. Ancient China sought to prepare elite officials to govern the empire according to Confucian principles, the Greeks sought to cultivate civic responsibility and to develop well-rounded persons, the Romans sought to develop civic responsibility for the republic and then empire, the Arabs attempted to cultivate religious commitment to Islamic beliefs and to develop expertise in mathematics, medicine, and science, the Renaissance focused on cultivating a humanist expert in the classics, and the Reformers desired to instill a commitment to a particular religious denomination and to cultivate universal literacy.

At the present time no one denies the significance of education because it shapes the person’s mind and character. Every person experiences a training process which leads to a true understanding of his own nature, needs and wants. Education develops the unique human capacities making people understand the world and how it works. They acquire practical knowledge andskills developing their capacity to deduce, analyze, synthesize, criticize, theorize, hypothesize, organize, conceptualize, articulate and thus fill in blanks with knowledge-level facts.

But education is not merely a matter of training the mind. To educate people means to teach them better ways of doing something and a better way of living. As long as education does not cultivate an integrated outlook on life and does not explain the students the eternal values on the basis of moral behaviour, it has very little significance.  People may be highly educated, but if they are without deep integration of thought and feeling, their lives are incomplete and contradictory. The ideal of education is the full development of human nature’s potentialities which are fostered at Universities. The idea is to develop the critical, adaptable, multi-skilled and creative person.

University-level education must help any person to live at this time of environmental, economic and social upheavals. Universities have been a means to provide students with scientific knowledge and a sense of personal responsibility for a sustainable multicultural society in which all human beings can live happily without violence, in peace and security. Education provides students with a sense of a community life with diverse cultures which could blend into a new civilization and live using the advantages of a civilized society. It is essential that universities develop independently thinking and self motivated citizens making students autonomous, self-governed, and this-world focused. University-level education promotes human intellectual capacities and takes people further in their careers, particularly with the fast technological developments which demand sophisticated and educated workforce. Nowadays education is thought of as the most crucial element of the employability and income and is considered to be a firm guarantee of a well-trained workforce for a global economy.  

Education is not necessarily only as a means to economic gain but also enables happiness, independence and fearlessness through cultivating the ability to think critically. Universities raise young generations to be active citizens in a democratic society, to move away from dependency to self-sustaining models of economic, scientific and cultural development. All countries need citizens who have developed the ability to think for themselves and solve problems creatively, rather than submissively taking orders from above. 

For each person education expresses personal values, his knowledge and skills which are necessary for his personal development and career advancement.

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