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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has paid a visit to No. 3 School in the town of Sevan (Gegharkunik region) on 1 September marking the commence of the new academic year. The Sevan school has welcomed a total of 111 first graders this year.

Congratulating the academic staff and schoolchildren on the day, the PM stressed today marks the first September 1 of new Armenia. 

“In new Armenia, knowledge, rather than the formal grades. Should the key priority. This means every student and every parent should strive for the knowledge, not the grades. It is the abilities and skills that will matter, not what you learn by heart,” he stressed. “The schools of new Armenia should not simply pursue a goal of conveying some information to children, but prepare them to fly, since the time has come to fly and reach new heights.”

Pashinyan said that in new Armenia the education process should be a pleasure, not a suffering, stressing the need to unite the efforts of the whole society, government and state to this end.

“September 1 opens a new chapter in new Armenia, and we must live happily and freely in this new chapter,” he said.