The crisis of limitation of funds and the ways of coping with it in the arts, science and education

The contemporary economic and social situation determined the crisis in the sphere of arts, science and education. The crisis also influenced the techniques of teaching physical and colloidal chemistry in higher schools, in particular, such major form of it as a laboratory session. Due to the limitation of state financing provided to fundamental sciences and education the physical and colloidal chemistry teachers have faced the necessity to be very thrifty in saving reagents and appliances for experimental activities. In turn it caused other difficulties: deficit of work places for students, induced simplification of laboratory activity, disorder of correct sequence of lectures and laboratory works. These problems are determined by the very nature of the chemistry teaching, which requires considerable financing (mainly for acquisition of reagents and appliances). There are similar trends in the arts, for instance, movie making, painting, sculpture, architecture require quite expenses for those involved in creative activities. However, many outstanding creative personalities, including writer S. Zweig, architect M. Frederick, philosophers B. Williams and G. Deleuze, and others are positive that a crisis has constructive nature. In their opinion, these are just the restrictions and hardship that release creative resources and open opportunities for improvisation and flexibility development. The author makes an attempt to transfer the situation formed in the arts to the education field, in particular, the techniques of teaching chemistry and physics, claiming that it is possible to achieve learning tasks by shoestring means, and the crisis may excite new creative resources of methodologist teachers.