Alexander Shirvindt spoke sharply about modern students, accusing them of ignorance

Today’s students are very different from previous generations because of their self-confidence. It is no secret that half of them go to university at the request of parents who believe that a person should have a diploma of higher education.



I remember my first year as if it was yesterday. We had a small group. Many classmates came from areas shy. We were taught to talk then. I remember the teachers saying to the curator, “They don’t talk to you.” So in our first year of philology, we were taught to talk, to talk, to talk about ourselves. Slowly, we became more confident, no longer afraid to share our thoughts. The speech became clearer, more convincing, parasitic words disappeared somewhere.



We loved our teachers very much. Probably, there were not so many kind and sympathetic people in any department who sincerely wanted to put as much knowledge as possible into the head of each student. There have been incidents with some of our students. Called on the carpet to the dean, scolded for disrespect to the teacher. We were supposed to have an English couple on Saturday. Several students were ill, the rest did not come to a couple without warning the teacher.



Teacher Natalia Sergeevna, who had two young children, came on Saturday as an honest person and was in shock. She wrote a report, of course, for which we were all reprimanded. It's still a shame, but did we want to hurt her? Herd instinct worked, nobody thought about the man the kids were waiting for. Did our mothers and grandmothers do this when they were in college?



Alexander Shirvindt - Soviet actor, teacher, writer was disappointed in the current generation once and for all. He is sure that students are not learning anything now, they are too liberated and arrogant. Do they bear a drop of knowledge after graduation? And all these people will one day become teachers and doctors, builders. What is the future of distance education? When A. Shirvindt spoke about modern students, he did not choose words, but said everything as if it were in spirit.



What is the difference between the 1950s and today’s students? I am the oldest teacher at the Shchukin Institute, I have been teaching for more than 60 years. Before these 18-year-old Bambi had to emancipate for the first two years. Now they come, having already starred in advertisements for Viagra and pads, and our task is now, on the contrary, to enslave them. Everything else - boobs, legs, ass, eyes - is the same.



Another thing is that they are gray, they know nothing. One day, Yurochka Yakovlev came to the school for his own business. Sit down in the lobby. And all this punk flies by, hurting him. I put together a course and opy: "What are you doing?" When I was studying, people’s artist Mikhail Fedorovich Astangov came to the school. So we dropped out of school and ran to look at him. And here sits the great Russian actor Yakovlev, and you do not notice, rush past! And one girl, crying, said, "You're not telling us anything!" They would talk about their meetings with Meyerhold.” Here! This is not a joke, this is their level of knowledge.



Once, people sincerely reached for knowledge and obtained a diploma, going through hundreds of sleepless nights and rote learning. The institute either passed the entrance exam or failed it. The student, who entered the medical institute, sincerely wanted to save lives, serve the homeland, be useful to society. And now they enter the university for a paid department, study for threes and admit that they do it not of their own free will, but because their parents pay for them. Isn't it?