Szlezak: In the shadow of “Collegium Humanum”

Yesterday I came across any alarming information on the Internet. According to a study entitled "Highly citted researchers 2024", which is simply a summary of the most frequently cited researchers in the planet – scientists, of 6886 of these researchers mentioned in this report, there is no Polish or Polish.

I would add that these 6886 scientists come from 60 countries. I cannot verify this data, but I have no reason to question it either. Still, I can't believe it's that bad. If this is true, we can talk about the collapse of civilization in Polish science, and so about the collapse of civilisation of Poland as a state.

I immediately thought of the scandal of the already celebrated "Collegium Humanum", which confirms this collapse. This affair showed that nothing is solid knowledge, gained by hard work and talents. It's all about being in any party-social arrangement and being willing to cheat to include intranet positions.

Another proof of this civilizational collapse is the behaviour of the president of Gdańsk. On the supervisory board of 1 of the municipal companies in Gdańsk, there is simply a individual who holds a diploma from “Collegium Humanum”, most likely simply bought at this “school”. The president stated that if the individual afraid failed to pass the state exam, authorising him to sit on the supervisory boards of state and municipal companies, he would be deprived of office. Do you realize that, dear reader? Madam President, alternatively of throwing out this fraud with a bang, he's making him pass the exam. It's not an crucial fact of fraud and possibly crime. It's about the fact that you're in a relation with the president that this individual is simply a good expert.

The above facts and thousands of akin facts show that we live in a state fake. There's barely anything real going on here. Tens of thousands of people occupying various exposed positions only claim to have the education required to take these positions. Tens of thousands of people only pretend to manage various areas of political, economical and technological life. This management is expected to be that nothing good comes from it but the advanced salaries of specified people. To those thousands of people closest to 1 of the characters of the comedy by Stanisław Barea "Searched, Wanted", who was by profession director. I have the impression that Polish public life is mastered by the wisemen who are by profession the director. I'm convinced there's more of these human colleges. The “Alumni” of these schools are progressing dramatically after career stages, as can be seen from the state of the Polish state. I have a special, individual relation with this.

When I started studying at KUL in 1981, I found myself in a year with children of the Ku3ów Profesury. In dealing with them, I saw how far the intellectual distance divides us. I come from a working household without any intellectual traditions. My top ambition has become to bridge this distance. I may have any talents, but almost the only way to overcome this distance was to work. Reading hundreds of books, talking to tens of people smarter than themselves, going to lectures, conferences, and meetings not covered by the survey program, but expanding the horizons, it was a immense effort for me. After the end of the year and passing exams, I stayed in Lublin and sat in the library all July. They looked at me like I was crazy. After a fewer years of hard work, however, I was satisfied. The distance was gone, and I was able to give the speech to the discussions. I graduated with honors and received a rectorial award for my master's thesis. The awareness that intellectual improvement never ends, accompanies me now. That is why for the “alumni” of various human collegies I have contempt, although it is an ugly feeling. In addition, I passed the state exam for those wishing to sit on the supervisory boards of municipal and state companies, which required rather extended and very circumstantial knowledge.

All this experience of mine powerfully insulates me in the sphere of public life and I dare say I have the ability to rapidly detect a certified failure. How many of them do I meet in public life? How sorry I am that this town is becoming a fake, and the talk of its rulers is suitable for the school humor notebooks. Unfortunately, as you can see, the state is degenerating in a akin way in Warsaw, Gdańsk or Stalowa Wola. I want it could be stopped. This is the kind of ray of hope given me present by a young neurologist who examined my mother. He impressed with medical knowledge, cognition of the psychology of older people and human kindness. Hopefully there will be more in another areas of life, and then technological publications of Poles and Poles will be quoted in the world. How I'd like to live to see it!

Andrzej Szlezak