Thank You, Educomplex

It is high time I summarized the three years I have lived here. Let me start from the very beginning. I have always liked watching western films with students participating in them. To see them travel with their educators, study, create and live their own lives. All that attracted me a lot. Every time I watched such films I had one and the same dream: “I wish I studied at a school like that.” 

I was leaving my basic school. I can’t remember what examination I was taking at that moment, but I remember some people coming into the classroom and leaving some booklets with my former headmaster G.Safaryan who later was supposed to hand out them to us. At that time I hadn’t yet decided at which high school I would continue my education, but I was sure of one thing: my ambition was to become a journalist. The examination was over. I handed out my examination paper and was about to leave when my English teacher, Mrs. Achemyan, asked me whether I would like to take one of those booklets. I took it and hurriedly went out. It was stuffy in the classroom and I wanted to breathe fresh air. On coming out I opened the booklet, and what a happy feeling I had! They teach journalism at that school, the learners attend school with media means, there is wireless internet in the whole school, educational trips are organized, and the appeal “Let them come who…” was especially impressive to read. That was just the school of my dreams. I went home and dialed the telephone number on the booklet. A man answered my call (later I found out that it was Mr. Bleyan) and he began introducing the Educomplex to me, and I was asking different questions as I was concerned with everything. After having spoken to him for about an hour I was determined to apply to that school. I was admitted. I found myself in a new environment. I am fully responsible for my words. Nowhere could I find such an environment: a new environment and different teachers.

When the teacher is your friend:That is something that has become a reality in our Educomplex, but it is an unsolved problem in our Armenia.

When the environment makes you a citizen: Who you are and what you are is determined during school years. Any school is not a real school if it doesn’t make the learner a citizen. And I am really proud to declare: “Thank You for making me a citizen.”    

When you feel an inseparable part of school:  We spend most of our day at school, but I don’t think that everybody considers themselves part of their school. Most students aren’t interested in their school. But I am really proud to declare: “Thank You for the environment which allows the learner not only to feel that he/she is a personality, but also to consider himself/herself part of that big Educomplex family.                    

When education meets the learner’s requirements: Today many schools still work with traditional old methods which can lead the learner to “committing suicide”. And not without any reason do many people declare: “You will use meager part of the knowledge acquired at school.” I declare today: “The environment and educational system that exists at our Educomplex, have given me all the skills and knowledge which will help me live, create and be proud.”

There are still many things to mention but I will set myself a limit with the basic ideas mentioned above. They make a schoolchild a learner. Thank You, everybody.

Vitali Grigoryan, Grade 12