#reform!
Enkhbat Rozoon

Throughout the Reformation Year 2017, this site offers trendsetters and thought leaders a place to present their notions of change and innovation. What are the potentials and needs for current and future-oriented “reformations”?

Caught up in everyday cares, neither citizens nor government can initiate genuine social change. Social change can be brought about only on the basis of a new understanding of society. Its basic concepts and principles (rule of law, division of powers, freedom of the press, civil rights, and so on) must above all be made comprehensible in the people’s native language and internalized by them. Only in this way will they become effective guides for living together. For this reason, a constitution that contains these concepts and principles must be explained to the people in a generally understandable manner. I see this as the most important challenge for the social renewal of our country. If this fails to take place, the political system and the people will become increasingly alienated from one another, and the gap between the rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, will continue to grow.
 

Accordingly, I see the most important social mission of a publishing house in facing the challenges presented by the development of the country’s language. In our view, social development is inseparably bound up with the development of our mother tongue. This view has long been the foundation of our publishing work. As publishers, we seek ways in which to explain comprehensibly the basic concepts of a new social order. In our translation work we are confronted daily by the challenges attending this effort. The work can be done only by people who possess knowledge of foreign languages and a good education. Unfortunately, the state has shown no initiative in accomplishing this task. That is why we consider it our duty to devote ourselves to this work to the extent our means and skills allow. By so doing, we seek to contribute to progress and social development.