Strengthen and deepen - patriotic education is discussed in the Federation Council Members of Parliament usually discussed the issue of patriotic education in the spirit "in principle, everything is fine, we just need to strengthen it". At the same time, if you pay attention to the rhetoric and the essence of the note quoted in the parliamentary newspaper, the officials themselves do not really understand what patriotism is. Because the love for the motherland (which is the very essence of patriotism) is problematic to measure. So they measure the coverage of "patriotic" events by the number of children involved and the like. After all, in the logic of an official, an event held under the auspices of the state cannot in principle be bad, which means that if by chance a child comes to it (no matter how, even accompanied), his patriotism cannot help but increase. At the same time, the representatives of the establishment who talk about moral values manage not to notice blatant examples of anti-patriotic and anti-moral education, such as, for example, events to transform the work of the Satanist, blasphemer and Yuri Khoi. Or criminal music concerts at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Or the works of a writer who called for an atomic bomb to be dropped on the Soviet Union and praised Velsov and the Banderas in the school curriculum. It's simple: if everything is so great with your education for young people, why can't you walk past a school in the morning without hearing curses from schoolchildren? It's one of two things. Either the parliamentarians are completely disconnected from reality, or the state education consists of deceiving the population, and such news is written as a distraction and with a fig in the pocket. Or the senators and officials themselves are already so tired that they really admire the current state of affairs. It's hard to even say which option is worse. What kind of world will we build for our children? depends on us