Every time when I enter the central library named after Toshkhuja Asiri I see students, anxious people who write reviews, control-works, course-papers, diplomas. One thing causes surprise, why instead of writing their works themselves do they seek for similar “writers”?
Quoting librarian Munavvara Khojayeva, the number of students visiting the library has lessened in comparison with the previous year. Only under extreme urgency they appear in the library asking for necessary books. Some of even don’t know properly a title of a theme or a manual that makes their search more difficult. But in spite of these difficulties we try to find what they need.
In my opinion, the indifference of today’s students to obtaining knowledge when not infrequently a modern student can’t express an elementary idea should be traced back to nowadays school. It is common knowledge that some teachers pay attention not to pupils’ knowledge, but to their clothes and the place of their parents’ work, in such cases a child grows being pampered, as he/she knows that the parents will always make an agreement with a teacher. Having gained such life experience he/she enters a higher school.
Once when I was looking through periodicals in the library two finely dressed girls-students sat next to my table. The unwittingly heard conversation between them made me cogitate over the future of our nation, about knowledge and culture of those who will come after us taking the relay of life, who will build up a democratic society in Tajikistan. One of them asked another: “What is his name - Loiq or Sherali”
What kind of society shall we build up with such uneducated students getting their marks for money? “Knowledge, science - they are insulted”, - said 60 years-old resident of Khujand Ibrohim Safarov when I retailed this talk to him.
In the viloyat telecast conducted by Obid Karimi the majority of the young audience present couldn’t enumerate the titles of viloyat and urban newspapers; as for republican ones nothing can be said about it. One of 4-th year students of the law faculty under KSU was unable to call elementary juridical terms. One can deliver a lot of examples of this sort.
Presenters of the urban television when delivering news in the Russian language, having higher education, even when reading the text from paper make grammar and logic mistakes. It testifies to a low educational level and poor professionalism of the TV editorial-board, to absence of specialists who might correct mistakes.
“Now out of hundred students only one studies self-sufficiently. They stem from the families which can’t afford free money; all the rest solve their problems by means of monetary resources”, - says Shodiboy Burhonov, visitor of the library. - In Khujand there is a bus driver with a diploma of KSU law faculty. He devoted several years of his life to jurisprudence and now works as a driver”. It is necessary to reconsider the attitude to higher education in the society.
Further development of our society depends on education, science, people’s abilities and talent. It is understood perfectly well by the head of our state on whose initiative Tajik schools are procured with modern equipment, computers inclusive. Because the future of our country depends on the educational level of the growing generation.
On April 4, 2003 the Fiat of the president of Tajikistan Republic on the study of English and Russian languages was issued. The leader of the state proved that he comprehended the importance of these languages for a further development of the republic.
The economic crisis in Tajikistan compelled many people of able-bodied age, youth especially, to leave for the Russian Federation to make their living. Bad knowledge of Russian doesn’t permit them to advocate their rights in Russia in full measure, not infrequently they fall victims of deceit and fraud. And what difficulties we do sustain when buying imported goods instructions to which are given in English! It is necessary, that our youth, our students should realize the significance of education. Still our future is in the hands of the growing generation and we should bring them up in a proper way.