Society

It is September 1 today, the knowledge day. And this means, that thousandas of armenians, after their summer holidays, will go to school again.



A question comes out: why do they go to school: for studying, for making contacts, for showing their new dresses and mobile phones bought in summer to the public, for “teasing” or just for killing the time? Most of the people can not answer to this question after the country got independence. In 90s many school children left the schools and made stands in the streets to sell goods. The explanations of their parents were very pragmatic: “they learn what to do. What can we do in case that we are educated? Nothing!” There were also more amazing answers: “my son is a businessman now”. We will reap the fruit somehow (of course if we don’t do that now). But the times changed, and now the children of Armenia, which has run over “South Korea” with its economical growth, go to school: they go to school to learn “who gave them “a chance” for this kind of happy life”.

 It is clutter in Armenia now. The parents don’t know what to buy first. The books, which in many cases will not be open during the whole year? Writing-materials, which they will buy during the year for several times? Or the dressings, which the children ask to buy first? The teachers now are going to have a chance for more “deals”. Now they wander about the pupils parents working places and their neighbourhood. Just several days later some children’s parents will be informed, that their children “don’t do well” and they have to take private lessons. And God forbid, if someone can’t pay (and this is met often nowadays). In one month the children will do not only bad, but also “will become a moron”. But the real morons, whose parents understand the hints of the teachers very clear, every day get excellent marks and show to their parents.

 Now we can say: “don’t worry, be happy”. Kind of they have made their best efforts to study for ten years, and now they have to study two years more. Gentlemen, not everything that is originally frech is good! Our education system is better than their for sure. This is neither spray water nor “a Legion of Honour” to try to adopt so fastly and without thinking.

 Actually there is another school too, which is called “a life school”. Our generation passed a very cruel and meanwhile very meaty “life school”. Watching our MPs, we understood, what really “Torichelian emptiness” means, and that the “attractive power” of the minister chair is stronger than the attractive power of the earth (probably no apples fell on the head of our ministers in their childhood in difference with Newton, probably they fell down from their chairs a lot in their childhood), and that our oligarchs got rich faster than the “velocity of light”. And till now they are sure, that Clomb is not a physicist but the pendent on the necks of their beautiful women (these words are prononced in the same way in spoken Armenian), that titan is not an element of Mendeleev chart, but a cover for mobile phones, that Tumanyan or Saryan are not fomaus armenian poets, but streets.

 Anyway, everone misses the school and university years. This is more connected with that they miss not the school or the university, but their childhood or youth, which is lost and will not come back any more. And I wish our children not only remember their youth and childhood with pleasure, but also due to the knowledge they could live good always, though concerning the knowledge, I agree with those, who say, that “it is never late to study”. In connection with this I agree even with Lenin.

Armen Kocharyan,
Who has no relationship with Lenin concerning other things, but still is optimist.