MINSK, 27 August (BelTA) — People working in education should be impeccable, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during the Nationwide Conference on Teaching on 27 August, BelTA has learned.
Summarizing the discussions, the president noted that he does not like formalism and bureaucracy in work. "Evaluating today's meeting, I still think about what will be the result of our meeting in such a composition. After all, here is the elite of our teaching community, here are the best. Will our communication have any effect?" Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
According to him, the key result of the event was not only that the participants were able to meet with the president and find out his point of view on certain issues. The teachers had an opportunity to communicate with each other. Moreover, many of them had studied at the same educational institutions.
“Therefore, not for nothing have we gathered here today, traditionally holding this great conference on teaching on the eve of the new academic year. We are openly discussing the problems and prospects of the national education system,” the president emphasized. “This conversation is very important. Education is the foundation of our life, which penetrates absolutely all sectors and determines, if you like, the development of the entire nation. People working in this area should be impeccable.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that teachers and professors take the highest responsibility of teaching the younger generation to adopt values. "Who, if not you, should develop a correct perception of the world in children, the understanding of all processes in the society and the state?" he added.