Knowledge important rather than degrees - Paravon Mirzoyan

Director of the National Gallery of Armenia Paravon Mirzoyan cannot understand officials seeking PhDs.

“Last year I watched TV and heard about 149 new PhD theses! In the USSR, only 10 to 15 people used to defend PhD theses after working for many years,” Mirzoyan told Tert.am.

Speaking of Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan and Minister of Transport Gagik Beglaryan, both of whom recently defended their theses, Mirzoyan said: “It is knowledge that is of importance. It must be a fashion now when one is addressed as ‘doctor’ or ‘professor’.”