In recent years, serious attention has been paid to raising the spirituality of young people, strengthening their ideological immunity, promoting reading among them, forming a reading culture, and encouraging active students.
At the initiative of the head of our state, the project "Sharing Enlightenment" is being held in order to attract students of higher educational institutions and general education schools to book reading and improve their artistic literacy.
Within the framework of the project, meetings of contemporary poets and writers, literature centers with young people are being organized.
One of such cultural and educational events was held yesterday at the Andijan Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
Members of the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan, people's writer of Uzbekistan, honored youth coach Muhammad Ali and famous artists Habib Siddiq, Humayun Akbarov and Khurshida Kochkarova took part in it.
First, the guests got acquainted with the activities of the institute and the conditions created for students. They also saw works of visual and practical art prepared by talented students, and a book fair organized by the Information Resource Center. In addition, with the participation of writers, ornamental plants were planted on the territory of the sports complex recently built in the institute as part of the "Green Space" national project. These seedlings were named after the artists.
After that, a creative meeting was organized between students and young people.
Together with students, teachers and students of a total of 49 general secondary schools of Altinkol District participated in the meeting online.
At the meeting, which was organized in order to increase the sense of patriotism and belonging to this country by introducing young people to fiction, detailed information was given about the exemplary life path, creativity, poetry collections, and translations of artists. Opinions were also expressed about the difficulties of artistic creativity, today's literary process, the issue of youth in it, new works being published, and the creativity of young writers.
Enlighteners spoke about the attention paid to literature and spirituality by our President, and emphasized that literature and enlightenment elevate the nation to great heights. Our great-grandfathers expressed impressive thoughts about the goal, action, courage, and sacrifice for the country. The creators were interested in the students' living conditions and aspirations and gave them the necessary recommendations and advice
The participants of the meeting rediscovered for themselves the poet who is one of the great creators of today's literature. Students received autographs from their favorite artists. They took a photo as a souvenir. Face-to-face creative communication was full of interesting moments.
The guests presented their autographed works to the library of the institute and to active students.
Within the framework of the project, artists together with vice-rectors and professors of the Andijan Institute of Mechanical Engineering visited the 9th and 10th secondary schools of Altinkol district and held a creative meeting with the students. In the course of open, sincere and thought-provoking conversations, the guests read samples of their works. Pupils' poetry exercises were also listened to. Artistic books were presented to talented, active and creative young people.
In the late evening, a bonfire was lit in student residence No. 1 of the institute, and a literary meeting was organized. In it, creative students read the best poems praising the feeling of loyalty to the Motherland and motherland. At the event, Otabek Odilov, the deputy dean of the Faculty of Economics, and Hamidullo Akbarov, a 4th-level student of mechanical engineering technology, sang songs composed to the poems of artists.
- "Mushoira night", "Munozara" debating competitions, "Zakovat" intellectual games, online quiz and a number of other literary and educational events were held within the framework of the project for a week with the participation of students in connection with the life and work of writers, - says the Institute of Work with Youth, Spirituality - the head of the education department, Mukhtaramkhan Halikova. - This increased our students' interest in literature and reading. I think that the spiritual food received during the project will remain in the hearts of young people for many years.
Lectures at creative meetings with creators who have a wide-awake heart and deep thinking, sincere dialogues serve to inculcate patriotism in young people and form immunity to foreign ideas.