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\"Approach<\/div><\/div>

Photo: Komitas Museum-Institute<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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When speaking about the responsibility of teachers, it is difficult not to recall the words of Komitas, spoken more than a century ago. In 1912, during a lecture at the Yesayan School in Constantinople, he addressed teachers:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\u201cGentlemen and sisters, teachers, approach the work of education with care and reverence. Yours is a very delicate task. You are called upon to educate a generation that is the nation of the future. If you guide it in the wrong direction, you will ultimately bring down a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>

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When speaking about the responsibility of teachers, Komitas\u2019s words addressed to teachers more than a century ago, in 1912, remind us that the future of a nation largely depends on their work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,221],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-30026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-in-armenia-en","category-news-en","tag-516"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30030,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026\/revisions\/30030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}