ПРОГРЕСС ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЙ ТЕХНИКИ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ПРОФЕССИИ УЧИТЕЛЯ

Abstract

The progress of information technology is viewed as an aspect of the development of the social productive forces. At first, the use of information technology leads to the displacement of elementary types of labor activity that do not require complex mental operations and more advanced types of it afterwards. This raises the question of what awaits teachers as a social group. Will there be a significant reduction in the number of teaching staff? And won't the teaching profession disappear altogether, as the pro-fessions of telephone operators and secretaries-typists have previously sunk into oblivion? We proceed from the fact that information technology, facilitating the handling of information, can and should be a teacher's assistant, since the learning process is largely asso-ciated with its assimilation and comprehension. But no technical device can replace the teacher, because teaching is a process of spir-itual growth of the student's personality, which occurs under the influence of the teacher's personality. Based on this view, a number of arguments are formulated against the idea of "optimization" of the education system and speaking bluntly, against the reduction of the number of teachers and the intensification of their work.