Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284342)

The idea of "innate" of "natural" origin of the ability (or "inability") to think is only the curtain that hides from mentally lazy of the teacher, those valid (very complex and individually varying) circumstances and conditions that actually awaken and form the "mind", the ability "to think independently". This view is usually only justifies their own lack of understanding of these conditions, you lazy reluctance to delve into them and take on the difficult work of their organization. Blame it on "nature" your own laziness - and a clear conscience, and the scientific view are met.
Theoretically, this position is illiterate and morally vile, for it is extremely antidemocratic. With the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the problem "thinking" she does not fit, as with the Communist attitude to the person. By nature all are equal in the sense that ninety-nine percent of people are born to this world with a biologically normal brain, in principle, able little bit easier or a little harder is to learn all the "capabilities" developed by their predecessors. And the sins of society, allocating still his "gifts" are not as fair and democratic as "nature", we are not to blame that nature. It is necessary to open each person access conditions of human development. Including to the conditions of the development of the ability "to think independently" - one of the main components of human culture. It is required to do school. The mind is not a "natural" gift. This is a gift of society to man. The gift, which he, by the way, pay then handsomely - most "profitable" from the point of view of a developed society "investment". Cleverly-organized - that is, Communist society can only consist of smart people. And at no time forget that it is the people of the Communist future sit at desks in schools today.