If you try to answer this question in one word, then this word is likely to be an adverb "difficult." For being any minister is difficult and responsible. Of course, all areas in their own way are important for the country. But education is the education of future personnel, who will be developing all other sectors in the future.
Instruction manual
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Be patient. Being a Minister of Education is an extremely responsible and complex matter. After all, raising one person is not so bad. And if you have a whole country in your hands? And not only schoolchildren, but also students, graduate students, all those who receive education. Education is not an area where measures taken immediately give results. The funds spent on some kind of educational program now will only bear fruit in a few years, when the children grow up, the students finish their studies and go to work.
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Count your moves for several years ahead, as in a sprawling chess game. The difference is that the Minister of Education does not need to calculate the moves of the enemies, because there are no enemies as such. Education can be prevented by some serious natural disasters, epidemics, and the economic crisis. As a result of these harmful factors, it will be necessary to reduce the financing of education in favor of other, more important areas. But even in these extreme conditions, schools and universities should work: one cannot allow a generation to be “lost” in terms of education.
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Learn to highlight areas of particular importance in education that need to be financed and developed in the first place. These may be areas related to industry, the economy, and culture, for example, in order to support cultural exchange with other countries along with the economic one. Therefore, the Minister of Education is required to know other areas and the relationship between them.
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Adopt all the best from foreign experience. There is no need to beat ourselves in the chest and say that we will invent everything ourselves, give only time. The amendments made in time, albeit taken by foreign colleagues, may open the way for other innovations, this time, perhaps of their own, more adapted to our mentality, our way of life, our realities.
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Be an erudite person. Of course, a person cannot know everything, but such an important person must know a lot. And, more importantly, to be able to analyze, to be able to understand people, to know what they need, to know where they can direct their energy right now, what they want tomorrow, how their moods will change. Then the education system will be more flexible, open and effective.
