There is a tradition to publish some materials of the past in the jubilee issues of newspapers. We also repeatedly posted on our pages notes and photos reflecting the history of the country and our university. But in this issue we decided to introduce to the readers materials of a different nature - advice to students and teachers and wise thoughts of wise people that were printed on the pages of a university newspaper.
"For the Soviet Engineer," September 11, 1953
Be armed with deep knowledge! To the first-year Polytechnic Institute students of the Lenin Kyiv Order
I am, a former student of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, especially glad to congratulate you on the beginning of your education in this higher order education institution...
Let me share with you some thoughts. I believe that for a successful study at the institute, it is necessary to develop a strict regime and a clear system of studies from the first days of the academic year. The working day needs to be very compact; not a single minute of training should be wasted...
You must learn how to work independently on the assimilation of the content of books, highlight the main thing in them, carefully analyze the reading, compare data, facts, examples from various sources.
The received theoretical knowledge should be systematically supported by practical work in laboratories. From the very first days of training, it is necessary to combine theory and practice closely, which is especially important for the further creative work of an engineer, scientist...
A feeling of camaraderie, collectivism should not leave you. You must learn to live, to create in a large collective...
Thoughts about the lecture
...Like a bee that collects honey from many flowers, the lecturer can use numerous textbooks, comparing them and using that what is most expedient to tell in the audience.
Sometimes one is lucky to find original solutions to a difficult problem, a new proof of some theorem, or at least a modification of the method already known. In this case, the teacher himself is interested in the lecture, as a product of his personal creativity.
A lot of creative initiative can be found by choosing the material that animates the presentation. The more reasonable work the teacher will put in preparing for the lecture, the more he will read it with great inspiration and the more interested the students will be...
Each student should write lecture notes, and the lecturer is the conductor of this work. He teaches so that students have time to write down the headings of the issues under consideration (a kind of mathematical novellas), definitions, and formulations of theorems. New terms, as well as the names of scientists, should be written on the board to avoid distortion...
In conclusion, I want to note one more point, which has no close relation to the method of lecturing. The teacher has to communicate with students constantly, and here he must show proper tact, first of all, be polite. When a student comes to me in the room of the department on any matter, I invite him to sit down, - only after that I start a conversation. Addressing to the student, we must not only call his surname: "Petrov", "Ivanov", but say "comrade Petrov", "comrade Ivanov." This kind of politeness is demanded of all the teachers of our department.
"For the Soviet engineer", November 17, 1954
About creative and school approach to the study of the metallurgy theory
...The creative approach to the study of science in any industry and, in particular, in metallurgy depends on the interest in science, which awakens among students by a professor who teaches one or another discipline...
An engineer is a person who introduces something new into his production with his creative technical activity. The engineer differs from the practitioner working at the plant, primarily in that he has a scientific background and knowledge of the theoretical laws of the processes that occur in ones or the others production units. And it is this knowledge that opens him a wide path to creativity. The ideal for the engineer can serve Leonardo da Vinci, who combines in himself a scientist, a practitioner and an artist. Although it is difficult to reconcile these three different profiles with the current state of development of the technical sciences, it is still necessary to strive for this. Any technical work, well executed, at the same time must be carried out goodly and in full accordance with the scientific provisions. The motto of technician should be a desire to bring maximum benefit in the further development of science and technology.
A good scientific and theoretical training of a young engineer obtained at the institute is necessary, but for practical work it is still insufficient or, more precisely, it is not enough...
... The engineer who has just finished the study can be compared with the steel released from the open-hearth furnace. This steel already has a specified composition, but it has not yet received its final qualities, because it has not undergone thermal, mechanical and other types of treatments, as a result of which these qualities should be collected. For this secondary treatment, the young engineer should already have another teacher in the production conditions, in fact, not less important than the professor at the institute who instilled an initial interest and gave the necessary knowledge to a young specialist...