“German Gref’s proposal is too beautiful to be real ... If we, with the modern educational system, really cancel all exams, we will face two problems. The first problem will be that a significant portion of children will simply stop learning. Because they have no internal incentives, but no external ones. And the second problem - the question will arise, how and by what criteria to enter universities and secondary special educational institutions. Gref is right in that you need to return the desire to learn to children, but just by canceling the exams this cannot be achieved, ”Smolin said.

The MP noted that interest in knowledge "is falling sharply for many reasons."

Earlier, Gref stated the need to "kill" exams.

According to him, children already leave the school as “disabled”, as they get so used to the grading system that in the future, when it is absent, they relax and are not ready to do anything.