GOVERNMENT UNWILLING TO HELP GIFTED CHILDREN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14. ARMINFO. Fifteen winners of international
mathematics, physics, informatics, and chemistry competitions have
received presents of the RA National Academy of Sciences (ANAS). The
ceremony of presenting the gifted children with encyclopedias and
photo cameras was held on the occasion of International Science Day.
Head of republican and international competitions Garnik Tonoyan
compared looking for talents to prospecting gold in the country’s
entrails, pointing out that the Government is rather passive in this
matter. According to him, the pupils’ achievements are their own
service, as ordinary comprehensive schools have not potential for
preparing talented children. Schools have no manuals, and teachers
cannot answer gifted children’s questions. Tonoyan stressed that the
International Scientific-Technical Organization, which allegedly spent
20mln. USD on revealing talented children, has not actually spend a
single dollar to sponsor the participants in international
competitions. “The matter is that the Government has no strategy to
support talented pupils,” Tonoyan said. As a result, Armenian
prodigies do not receive such good prizes as their peers from
Azerbaijan and Georgia. The winners of competitions visited the
country’s scientific centers, where scientists told them about their
achievements in mathematics, physics, medical genetics, etc..