LONGING FOR A WINNER GENERATION
Aram Zakaryan

Lragir.am
14 June 06

Once celebrating his victory in war German Chancellor Otto von
Bismarck, to everyone’s surprise, drank the first cup to German
teachers, who educated a winner generation, not the generals who had
won the war. I recalled this small but meaningful episode on June 13,
when several channels repeatedly broadcast the celebration of the
Last Bell at schools to advertise the Bargavach Hayastan Party.

First it should be noted that after the independence of Armenia
the school received so many blows that it can hardly stay on foot
if it has not fallen yet. Unfortunately, the statesmen have not
realized yet that using everything and everybody in politics is an
expression of fear rather than almightiness. And when they reach out
for school, it already threatens our future. Again unfortunately,
the adversarial political forces are identical in engaging school and
teachers in politics: they imitate and learn from one another. The
Republican Party, for instance, decided to enroll schools to use them
in the upcoming election, and launched a campaign of affiliation
of teachers with the party. The Bargavach Hayastan Party keeps up
with the Republican. If the Republican Party made several dozens of
teachers from one or two schools to affiliate with the Republican,
the BH decided to win over teachers and students of several dozens
of schools on the day of the Last Bell and to broadcast it all over
Armenia on several channels for several days on.

I would really be glad for our teachers and students if a political
party or a millionaire had perceived the social responsibility
of business. Whereas it became clear from the bows and words of
gratefulness of dozens of students and teachers that they had not.

Whereas it should have been the contrary, and everyone, including
oligarchs should be grateful to teachers.

Whereas we make a girl or a boy of 17 think that there is a more
important thing than knowledge and education. Charity is good when all
the social problems, including in the sphere of education, have been
solved. Charity is meaningless unless social problems are solved. And
in order to solve these problems, it is necessary to battle black
economy and corruption and pay taxes. Otherwise, school and teachers
appear in, a non-dignified state, to put it mildly. And we are still
longing for a winner generation.

Member of Parliament Victor Dallakyan once called pro-government
members of parliament not to deny people. Rephrasing his words,
we will say: do not deny teachers and students.