Museum-gallery of applied ceramics and art creativity of Ilya and Alexey Burlai

A student, a master, a graduate student or an ordinary citizen that wants to get to know the world, undertake a scientific study or find for himself something new and interesting, turns to the book. A book it is a treasury of culture and availability of a book in a library gives an opportunity to study history with the purpose of the mutual understanding of cultures. Priceless are the books in the library of the German national museum. There it is possible to become acquainted with historical, scientific, methodical editions of different historical periods and modern theories that give an answer to a multitude of questions related to practical work of modern times. Every time I visit the library of the German national museum in the city of Nuremberg I enjoy the atmosphere of a reading-room of the library, hospitality of staff and easy access to the books. There are about 600000 books in the library. When I take a 250 year old book in my hands I feel that I become a participant of events portrayed in the book and I visualize the images of old time. For example, in the book of the author Stettner Daniel, 1764, the leveling of site for construction of the fortifications of 17-18 centuries is skillfully represented. The book is designed in the form of album in leather cover. Bright illustrations: colored pictures, sketches and drawings give an idea about architectural and designer landscape projects which remain actual also in our time. The book of the author Weigel Christoph, Regensburg: Weigel 1698. Titel: Katalog der Lipperheid. Kostumbibliothek is illustrated by numerous graphic pictures that represent the history of technology and handicrafts development in the 17th century. While studying the books of the past centuries we better understand historical events, and it gives us an opportunity to have a better understanding of science and technology development history. Visiting libraries and reading original publications have an influence on creative development of personality and expose its internal creative and scientific potential in art, music, history, science. I wish you discoveries and achievements. Visit libraries!

Fire brigade chief is a public officer appointed as a leader of fire brigade.
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The subject of the lesson is familiarization of students with the first founder of mining and metallurgical industry А. М. Pol based on operating exhibition dedicated to biography and labour activity of the prominent statesman of the nineteenth century.

The following questions were put before the students: “What prominent specialists-metallurgists do you know?”, “What famous people do you know in Ukraine and in Dnepropetrovsk region?”, “Where a monument to А. М. Pol is situated in our city? In which connection this monument was established? While telling the life history of Paul, an outstanding personality, we expose his versatile merits. He was a founder of modern metallurgy and mining industry, a developer of the Krivoy Rog iron-ore basin, initiator of construction of railway to connect the ore mines of Krivoy Rog and Donbas.

Director of MSMU Belikova L. L.

“School of the Future” is the third art festival, which takes place in the museum-gallery, it is about the study of the color and coloration, about fine arts in modern education, as aesthetic awareness is a prerequisite for spiritual enrichment. P.A. Beletsky defined art as follows: “Art, like language, is a means of communication between people, like science it is a means of understanding reality, like pedagogy and morality it is a means of education, promoting knowledge and standards of behavior in a society. Art implies any purposeful human activity, the ability to find way of realizing an idea in one form or another. Ability to express thoughts in words is also an art. Creation of an object by some means providing high quality of a product is also an art. Consequently, the art is similar in many ways to other kinds of human creativity.”
The power of pictorial art, like art in general, lies in the depth of conception and perfection of form. A combination of an outstanding idea and professional skills gives a perfect work of art.
Preservation of history of science and technology, parallel education in museums of technical profile in order to provide a solid art education to the next generation and implant an attitude to art as an aesthetic pleasure is a purpose of the “Museum and School” project.
The “School of the Future” festival will be held in the museum gallery during the school years 2012 – 2013 and will be completed by a thematic exhibition dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the museum-gallery.

The subject of the lesson was as follows. The artist told the students of the “School of the Future” about his artistic career and the ideological obstacles he had to overcome in the course of his life. He also told the students about the challenges of freelance work, about his forced departure from his native city of Zaporozhye and his move to the northern part of Russia, about formation of artistic personality. The other subjects concerned understanding of contemporary art and ones attitude to it, the answer to the question “What is the meaning of Malevichs Black Square?”, the value of art in the life of contemporary people and spiritual development.
The topics of the next lessons can be presented in the same sequence with more thorough consideration of the subject matter and demonstration of original works or reproductions possibly on screen.
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The importance of foreign language learning for personal development / Bilingual Family.

What is a language? – It is a form of information exchange, way of interaction and communication of all living things in the Universe. What does it mean to know a foreign language? – Some maximalists I belonged to previously myself would say that it means to read the classics in the original and understand word-play and humor. (I myself have lived in Germany for 12 years, am fluent in German and read German literature, though many of jokes in German remain a mystery to me. It is especially difficult to understand satirists speaking for the lack of knowledge of some cultural backgrounds, turns of speech, as well as childhood spent in this country). Someone less strict would say that knowledge of the language simply implies the ability to know it at the level of mere survival and communication with native speakers of the language – no matter with or without errors. That’s enough to feel secure and confident in today’s world.
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There was held the first lesson within the project called “School of the Future”, which started the Museum-gallery of applied ceramics and art creativity of Ilya and Alexey Burlai, June 12, 2012. At the class there were children who have shown interest and desire to become the students of this extraordinary school. The singularity of this school is primarily in the selection of topical and interesting subjects for students and in peculiarities of their conduct. The topic of this session included the range that can be described as “The Language Culture” which included the following sub-topics as “Borrowings from Other Languages,” “Surzhyk (mixed Russian-Ukrainian dialect)”, “The Value of the State Language,” “One or Two Official Languages?,” and “Learning of Foreign Languages”.
Of course, for full coverage of these sub-topics they may also be the subject of some classes. The purpose was to help students to understand some difficult and controversial, but current linguistic issues. In the sub-topic “Borrowings from Other Languages,” which was a part of the topic of this lesson, I show the methods of the topic disclosure. The peculiarity of its topic is that consideration of the topic was in the form of discussion. So students were asked the questions such as “What is a language Borrowing?,” “Do we need borrowings?,” “What are the ways of getting words from one language to another?” and so on. Students gave answers to the questions in the way they understood them, supplemented each other and discussed with each other. Consideration of other sub-topics was held on the same way. The advantage of lessons in the form of discussion is that all students are actively involved in discussion and the situation in connection with the discussion stimulates their thinking, activates them and
doesn’t allow distracting. They all plunge into the discussion process, and do not notice how quickly time of the class is passing.
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