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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, at the event "Open Microphone with the President" with students of higher education institutions of the Vitebsk region, explained why he is so demanding of textbooks, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

Ahead of the question-and-answer session, Alexander Lukashenko spoke about the current situation in the education sector. The Head of State emphasized that all reforms in the system are now complete. Many innovations have been tested in recent years, as it was necessary to rebuild the work of this sector after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"There have been many instances in my life when I had to revise textbooks. Not myself, but to compel educated people: 'Make a proper textbook.' A textbook is an icon to me. A textbook is the foundation of learning. It should contain the concentration of all knowledge on the subject. And we revised these textbooks many, many times. I cannot say that I am satisfied; I am already critical of myself: perhaps I am excessively demanding of those who write and create these textbooks. Perhaps it should indeed be this way... It seems to me that in the times when I studied, textbooks were simpler and more accessible," Alexander Lukashenko said.

At the university, the Head of State was presented with a new textbook on modern political economy. In this regard, he spoke about how educational programs in economics were previously formed in Belarus: the Western approach was taken as a basis, but this knowledge was simply "thrown" into the country. "If we had followed this path in Belarus (and many countries have followed this path, which do not have such a huge resource potential), we would have perished," the President stated. "Then I sent the former Minister of Economy to be a rector with one task: we need to stop this collapse in education, we need to teach our people what we need, and that will be correct."

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