By today's standards, they were spacious but unsightly rooms, often with some broken glass, and as the day went on, there was more and more dust in the air, mixing whitish chalk dust and the classic floor dust that about thirty of us raised by jumping during the so-called . a little rest. Until the teacher's figure appeared in the doorway, when everything suddenly fell into silence. This is how the institution that made the modern world looked in my childhood: the classroom.
In Montenegro today, it is one of the humiliated public spaces. Not the only one. But I'm afraid that we will pay an unimaginably high price for this humiliation of the classroom. And for a long time.
These days, we often read that the world is already talking about how artificial intelligence (AI) could be used in the education process. Because, it is said, among other things, that it would significantly facilitate learning for young people. But the real question is: are all the reliefs - reliefs?
It's not an entirely simple question, and I'm not even sure that it's being approached from the right end. In the end, are we not, in this way, displacing the processes of knowing and formulating the known outside of man? A human being who would be deprived of such processes (cognition, interpretation) would certainly lose a significant part of his human authenticity. Isn't that exactly what shapes us the most, or decisively - the way we know, experience and talk about the world...
It is a really complex set of issues that, according to experts, should be legally defined, regulated by rules, at least part of what could be problematic or questionable in one way or another.
While such conversations are held in normal countries, Montenegrin education is far from such issues. Our classrooms have not yet reached the XNUMXst century. It's as if they reversed the direction - quite in the spirit of flourishing feudalism, here the classroom is a space for battle. It's as if children are preparing for war and conflicts, not for a life full of revelations and challenges. Classrooms like this make party soldiers: they know nothing, but are ready to attack at any moment.
Montenegro is proud of the great battles it won - from Carevo Laz to Vučje dol, but today's Montenegro is losing the battle for the classroom. And mostly through their own stupidity, as such battles are usually lost.
New details from Montenegrin classrooms show what you all know well. Not only has the level of education in Montenegro fallen to the lowest levels, this is also a step further: you have the impression that the concept of education as such is equally "doubted" by the students as well as by the politicians who are in charge of education. A naked obesity that is impossible to semanticize, on the one hand, and ignorance without a cure, on the other.
All those powerful directorates, secretariats and that whole swarm of eager bureaucrats - it doesn't give results because people don't know how to work. And the question is whether they want to. You live in one reality, and politicians jump from reality to reality, like bees, so they are not too interested in the quality of those realities. They are only interested in being in the game, happily jumping from flower to flower, that is, from ministry to ministry.
And every change of minister brings a new personnel carousel, everything is spinning, and things in the classrooms are getting worse.
After all, the classroom is not only a privileged, one could almost say the sacred space of European culture, but also the birthplace of every future. You don't need a ball or a tarot - take a look at the classrooms and everything about our future will be clear to you.
Maybe it would be a real symbolic step towards fixing things: one big classroom for Montenegrin politicians. Maybe with artificial intelligence?
Lest it be - They studied, they studied, from Wednesday to Friday...
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