No language and memory

[IreneLviv]

Yanukovych has prepared a Draft Edict liquidating a number of administrative offices, services, and departments, and among them THE NATIONAL MEMORY INSTITUTE
Who will we be without our language and memory??????

[sjoyce]

It appears that the next thing in the works is to downgrade the education at Kyiv Mohyla Academy an old and well respected university.
Who will we be without our language and memory?? The impression is that the present government does not want the legal residents of the country to remember who they are, or what they have perservered through.

[Gotno Gizmo]

I can understand the desire to retain knowledge of the past, however in these rapidily changing and uncertain times, it is essentail that we prepare the next generation for the future. If developed countries indulge themselves in the arts and anthropolgy they may have enlightened youth, but not those educated in the technologies that sucessful economies will need to compete with the developing Asian "Tiger" nations. Art and humanitarian studies will become a hobby rather than something that will maintain food and shelter.

[bkrevel]

GG

With respect, I cannot agree with you.

During the dark days of WW2 in London, a minister suggested to Churchill that they cut all funds for museums, arts , and redirect to the war effort........where by Winston stated,,,,,,'This is exactly why and what we are fighting for!'
He never again got that bit of advice.

The same applies here,,,,,you cannot cut out a nations soul,,,its culture, art, history.......because Ukraine has a cancerous president.

There MUST be, there HAS TO be room for both,,,,culture and economics.

[IreneLviv]

See the photo I posted under Stare Siolo thread - Kalyna in snow - symbolic image of today's Ukraine!