Initiators of Opening Foreign-Language Schools Lack State-Oriented Mode of Thinking: Vazgen Manukyan

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.