Grammar is taught instead of the language, and the textbook is taught instead of the child

Ildikó Orosz, the Transcarpathian Hungarian Pedagogical Association (KMPSZ) and II. Ferenc Rákóczi, president of Transcarpathian Hungarian College, also spoke at the June 8 meeting of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Transcarpathian Hungarian educational institutions.

The leader handed over a summary of the previous correspondence between KMPSZ and the ministry to demonstrate the efforts the association made to change the education law under political pressure in a professional direction.

– I said that the first problem in this is that you don't have to scratch the surface and surface things, since the foundation of an education law is the basic law, then the framework curriculum, which describes who should know what and how. The curricula will be prepared based on this. And the end result is what the system of requirements will be. We are in a situation where an Olympics was organized for fish and birds with wings, the rules of which were adapted to the fish and the birds have to fulfill this, but I could say the other way around, the president of the KMPSZ told the press after the event.

According to Ildikó Orosz, we will not get from one to the other until there is a political consensus and agreement that a different state standard should be defined for minorities. Moreover, it is not only about minorities, since nowadays it is expected that everyone who speaks Ukrainian, who is a native speaker of Ukrainian, who has graduated from a Ukrainian school and who is admitted to the Ukrainian philology major, must pass the test at the advanced level. "The future kindergarten teacher, teacher, mathematician, chemist, physical education teacher... However, it is not certain that everyone needs to know the Ukrainian language and literature as deeply as someone who wants to be a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, humanities, or philosopher.
A differentiated system of requirements should be created, and the textbooks should be adapted to this based on knowledge of the mother tongue, so that they are competency-based."

The biggest problem is that, due to the current system of requirements, everyone is being prepared to pass the high-level baccalaureate, but for this they do not teach the language, but the grammar, and they do not teach the child, but the textbook, because you have to fulfill its requirements, because this will be the basis of the matriculation exam - concluded the president of the KMPSZ.

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