If a person receives a salary of 75 thousand AMD, then it is not necessary to conclude that they are not educated enough. There can be many reasons, starting with the fact that, despite the importance of the work performed, the pay is low, ending with the fact that a high income may not be the meaning of a given person’s life. Other non-material drives of people should not be ruled out. For example, there can be a low-paid teacher or a researcher who has received a brilliant education and works for a low salary because they value their work very much. And in the case of our state, I think that and a number of other fields are extremely significant, although they are not properly evaluated. And on the contrary, our oligarchs have clearly received a bad education, which becomes clear when they try to express some unchanging thought, but they have a certain business skill, thanks to which they got rich. Well, let’s keep quiet about highly-paid patrol officers and other security forces with secondary education at the expense of the state budget.
However, I would agree with the idea that education is very important. But its ultimate goal is not to enrich a person materially. One must acquire knowledge to grasp all the richness and diversity of the world. An ignorant person (let’s note that one can remain ignorant even after graduating from university, and vice versa – be knowledgeable without any diploma) lives with their stereotypes, their illusions, and often their monsters. They have no doubts about anything and live their “vegetative,” instinctive lives.
An ignorant person is also a bad citizen. For example, why was our society not shocked after losing the war? The main reason, I think, is that most Armenians do not know why they need to have a state. People have a vague idea of what awaits them and their children after losing the state. Those people have distorted ideas, they see the image of both their country and the world in “black and white.” And it is not important which forces are reflected in their brain as “black” and which as “white”.
So yes, education, along with safety, is our top priority. Information today is, so to speak, “poured out” at every turn. And this knowledge is rare and valuable.
Aram Abrahamyan
