INITIATORS OF OPENING FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SCHOOLS LACK STATE-ORIENTED MODE OF THINKING: VAZGEN MANUKYAN

Tert.am
16:26 21.05.10

It would be the greatest disillusion to consider the language as
simply a school subject or just a means of communication between
human beings. The language and the mode of thinking typical to a
particular language have spiritual and genetic roots, President of
the Public Council Vazgen Manukyan writes in a statement referring
to a pending bill proposed by the Ministry of Education and Science
that envisage reopening foreign-language schools in Armenia.

"Unable to develop a proper policy in educational system those
responsible want to hand in the sector, that is of significant
importance for our future, to foreigners. This testifies to the fact
that those responsible lack a state-oriented mode of thinking" reads
the statement.

Further it says that foreign-language schools will bring with them
a foreign educational system, foreign mode of thinking, foreign
psychology and a foreign world outlook.