Teacher's museum opened in Tatarstan
On the eve of the Teacher's Day, a teacher's museum was opened at the Alyoshkin-Saplyk school named after Vasily Dementiev (the founder of the education system in the AlyoshkinSaplyk rural settlement, the father of twice Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of nine Orders of Lenin and Stalin Prize laureate, USSR Aviation Minister Peter Dementiev). The idea belongs to the graduates of the school.
"We, the graduates of this school, which is more than 120 years old, decided to create a Teacher's museum and thus say thank you to all generations of our teachers. To show that we appreciate their work and express our gratitude," said Alexander Shadrikov, a native of Drozhzhanovsky district, one of the graduates of the school, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan.
Previously, the local history museum and the Dementyev Museum were located in this small room at the school. On May 9, the grand opening of the expanded exposition of these two museums took place in a two-story rural House of Culture renovated with the support of the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Nurgalievich Minnikhanov. And on the vacant site at the school, it was decided to open a museum "Teach — learn. Create."
Already at the entrance, visitors are greeted by full-length figures of students in Soviet-era uniforms. On the stands, one can see writing supplies from different years, textbooks, including unique ones in physics, astronomy, computer science and programming, created by the hands of the school's teachers. And it is also here, on the wall of the museum, that the unique "Alumni Tree" is now growing every year.
"Everyone should appreciate their teacher. It is necessary to restore the authority of the teaching profession, a person whose contribution to the formation of the personality of each of us is enormous! First of all, this is the education that a person receives, this is upbringing and, of course, the development that he will receive based on the knowledge gained at school," the Minister of Ecology notes.
Graduates of this school are confident that having acquired the right profession, it is very important that, if not all, then many of those born here want to return to their small homeland.
"Some of them will want to become entrepreneurs. And that's great! And the best graduates, I believe, should return to their native school walls as teachers, mentors, and educators. Our task is to figure out how to support them so that they succeed and make their small homeland, republic, and country stronger. There are wonderful words of Father Feofan: "By reviving a small Homeland, we are reviving a Great Russia," and I completely agree with them," says Alexander Shadrikov.