St. PETERSBURG, June 6 – Trend Wire. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Chairman of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation (VOOP) Vyacheslav Fetisov, in an interview with Trend Wire on the sidelines of SPIEF, proposed returning a subject dedicated to nature conservation to schools.
As the parliamentarian said, he recently came across a school certificate from the times of Tsarist Russia, in which knowledge of global nature, including hygiene, was an evaluative discipline, that is, “children were taught from childhood to respectful relationships.” He also recalled that in Soviet times there were school forestries and nature hikes.
“I believe that yesterday we should have introduced all these subjects into kindergarten and especially into the school curriculum. This is what people will worry about in the next hundred years, because the resource is depleting. And it is clear that children should know what is really important in the world today, and treat it with care,” Fetisov said.
He noted that a hundred years ago there were no such environmental problems as there are now, but the country was already thinking about how to educate people to care about water, forests and soil, “about what is the meaning of the existence of living things on planet Earth.”
The deputy also recalled that several years ago he managed to defend the right to leave environmental dictation on the agenda, which, according to him, involves more and more young people every year. Fetisov added that VOOP is doing a lot of work on environmental education and attracting children to participate in this process.
This year the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum takes place from June 3 to 6. Trend Wire is the general information partner of SPIEF.
Source: Ria