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Editor's note
Clichs. They make things easier and simplify processes. We cannot recognize that the clichés have occupied our minds and begun to govern the reality by our hands. This governed reality loses any sense. We, as parts of the reality, become senseless as well.
In subtle spheres, like education and upbringing (be it education of a child or a whole nation), this process shows itself especially distinctively. Template-styled approaches to any problem, unconscious shift of senses, which we do not keep under control, are able to twist into absurd any good thought, which have been initially received by governing structures. Someone would prefer to call it a “traditional approach.” However, “tradition” is not a cliché or template. More, we hardly know a lot about tradition.
In this issue, we try to overview the domain there nowadays is being grown the future of our country, of the land of our sons and grandsons. There was a time when the concept of University effectively absorbed ideals of spiritual Universality. While working over the topic, in addition to interviews and consultations with the experts, we had to make a long journey across web-sites of Russian universities. Unfortunately, such journey produces sharp feeling of distress. You find yourself in a mummified provincial world, which characters care only for their local problems, although are quick to use recently studied word “innovations.” Telling about their usual activities along with the same old approaches, they use the word with the same easiness, which helped them so much to rename beloved themselves into “Universities” several years ago. This issue provides self-telling examples of this stalled situation.
Intellectual forces do not agree to stay inside the wall of these institutions. Where would they go? Who is coming instead?
Clichés and template-styled thinking flood public relations sphere. In many sections, beside our “Issue Subject,” we offer materials about people and their projects, targeted to reinforce the consciousness of our ordinary life and enrich our worldviews. So many of us have already lost skill to name everything by the proper names and we can distinguish the terms no more. Therefore, we cannot communicate.
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