“Wise words spoken by Khalel”

If you think about the hundreds, thousands of Kazakhs receiving higher education, you will realise: this nation is also capable of working and moving forward. This means that one day it will take one of the honoured places in the world and become the second Japan.

It takes a lot of hard work and a lot of patience to get an education. There are many paths to knowledge. The most important are a good school and an educated teacher. In addition, you need books that are written in a language that everyone can understand.

Our time is the age of culture, and knowledge leads to culture. Knowledge comes gradually, and to be educated you have to work hard.

Without labour there is no knowledge. To think that you can enlighten the people and quickly make them cultured without effort is folly..

A nation preserves its language as long as it remains independent. The language of a people is destroyed by the influence of cultural nations that take the culture of neighbouring nations as a model.

In our experience, Kazakh is a rich language. However, its terminology and structure have not yet been organised for science. If the Kazakh language is systematised in a scientific direction, it will not be inferior to other languages in anything, and we must believe in this.

The destruction of a nation's language is primarily promoted by educated people. They are the most susceptible to external influences and become agents of changes in their native language.

If the language of schools and publishing houses is correct, it enriches, develops and flourishes with the people. If, on the other hand, a mixed, confused language is used in schools and presses, such a nation is an unhappy nation, and its language will inevitably collapse. Borrowing foreign words, it is necessary to adjust them to the laws of our language. There is not a single language in the world that accepts foreign words without modification.

In childhood, a person who has received a good education in a national school does not forget the laws of his native language and, using foreign words, tries to pronounce them according to the rules of his own language, because of which he may get confused.

Knowing one's mother tongue well and speaking a foreign language fluently is a joy. But not knowing one's mother tongue and speaking a foreign language is sadness. It is a great mistake to imitate a foreign language without knowing one's own. Neither educated people nor students should forget this.

Language is the soul of a people. A nation that does not know its language cannot be a full-fledged nation. A nation striving for culture, first of all changes its language and then destroys it. A nation that has lost its language is doomed to extinction. It is necessary not to distort but to improve the language, to consider the conditions of its preservation, to show examples of folk and fiction literature, to familiarise with its expressive forms.

Our Kazakh people, having awakened, strive to catch up with those nations that have gone ahead in the competition for culture. The basis of culture is knowledge. Knowledge comes through language. In educated peoples, the language is rich.

A people seeking culture first of all changes its language. Along with the knowledge coming from outside, new words appear to explain customs, laws, and innovations. Most new words in a language will be borrowed from more cultured peoples.