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DILIJAN SCHOOL AND FEAR OF THE WORLD
Naira Hayrumyan
Society - Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 11:27
The parliamentary opposition proposed yesterday to postpone discussion
of the draft law on tax and customs allowances to Dilijan International
School. Members of ARF Dashnaktsutyun and Armenian National Congress
demanded a justification. Representatives of the ruling party argued
that the project is highly important for Armenia which will bring
a lot of investments, create new jobs. Besides, it is one of the
few non-profit and international projects. The opening of Dilijan
International School in Armenia meets obstacles. In the beginning
when Ruben Vardanyan introduced the project, a wave of protest rose
against foreign-language education. Ruben Vardanyan was even about to
give up the initiative but later it was said to be an international,
not a school with teaching in a foreign language.
Doubts of the oppositional are not related to foreign languages some
other circumstances which are not voiced. Probably, their doubts
are part of the banal oppositional skepticism that the government is
unable to propose anything good and since they lobby this project,
something must be wrong with it. There is no established attitude
to non-profit and charitable projects in Armenia. Charity used to
be treated as humiliating alms but in fact it is a manifestation of
rational and humane approach to the world. And the best charity is
to invest in human development programs. Besides, over the last few
months we can see tendencies to break through the siege of mentality
which is caused by self-restraint, not blockade. The open sky policy,
intentions of American energy companies to enter the Armenian market,
Iranian proposals, disappearance of fear from the Russian "stick"
can help defeat this mentality. Dilijan International School may
be helpful. It does not suggest a sale of national wealth, and
the country' entry into a larger international domain may help us
enlarge our outlook. Armenians are called "citizens of the world"
because they are everywhere. But they feel to be outsiders all over
the world because they tend to narrow their own psychological areal
by narrow frames of besieged Armenia. The British conquered the whole
world because they were sure it belonged to them and they lost none
of their foggy islands.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/30128
Naira Hayrumyan
Society - Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 11:27
The parliamentary opposition proposed yesterday to postpone discussion
of the draft law on tax and customs allowances to Dilijan International
School. Members of ARF Dashnaktsutyun and Armenian National Congress
demanded a justification. Representatives of the ruling party argued
that the project is highly important for Armenia which will bring
a lot of investments, create new jobs. Besides, it is one of the
few non-profit and international projects. The opening of Dilijan
International School in Armenia meets obstacles. In the beginning
when Ruben Vardanyan introduced the project, a wave of protest rose
against foreign-language education. Ruben Vardanyan was even about to
give up the initiative but later it was said to be an international,
not a school with teaching in a foreign language.
Doubts of the oppositional are not related to foreign languages some
other circumstances which are not voiced. Probably, their doubts
are part of the banal oppositional skepticism that the government is
unable to propose anything good and since they lobby this project,
something must be wrong with it. There is no established attitude
to non-profit and charitable projects in Armenia. Charity used to
be treated as humiliating alms but in fact it is a manifestation of
rational and humane approach to the world. And the best charity is
to invest in human development programs. Besides, over the last few
months we can see tendencies to break through the siege of mentality
which is caused by self-restraint, not blockade. The open sky policy,
intentions of American energy companies to enter the Armenian market,
Iranian proposals, disappearance of fear from the Russian "stick"
can help defeat this mentality. Dilijan International School may
be helpful. It does not suggest a sale of national wealth, and
the country' entry into a larger international domain may help us
enlarge our outlook. Armenians are called "citizens of the world"
because they are everywhere. But they feel to be outsiders all over
the world because they tend to narrow their own psychological areal
by narrow frames of besieged Armenia. The British conquered the whole
world because they were sure it belonged to them and they lost none
of their foggy islands.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/30128