President of Turkmenistan congratulated schoolchildren, students, teachers and professors, educational workers on Knowledge and Students’ Day.

”I would like to cordially congratulate you on the double holiday – Knowledge and Students’ Day celebrated for the first time in the independent neutral Motherland,” the statement says. ”Today you will cross the threshold of new schools. In these wonderful educational establishments you will learn sciences and reveal the mysteries of the universe, find the answers to hundreds, thousands of the questions exciting your minds that will save in your memory and help in your future life. Your teachers will tell you about the country’s success and accomplishments and help to comprehend the ongoing changes, to remember the holidays.

”Everyone must treasure up knowledge from his youth. Because the answers to the questions put by the life can be found and the difficult problems can be solved only with the help of knowledge. You, my dear children, should leave school well-educated and be a generation devoted to the Motherland and people, a generation of diligent labourers and morally pure people.

”The golden age and further improvement of our life depends on you – competent and talented youth. To justify the confidence is your sacred duty.

”We will do our best so that our descendants could have the opportunity to study and receive necessary knowledge and good education, and in the future serve faithfully to the Motherland and people. Dozens of secondary schools and institutions of higher education using interactive teaching methods, supplied with multimedia equipment and an access to the global network internet will be opened in the capital of our Motherland – Ashgabat, the velayat centres, etraps and villages, moreover we have new pre-school institutions, children’s health-improving centre.

”We regularly open the new faculties at the higher educational establishments to train specialists in various fields, there is an increase in numbers of students in the country. This year thousands of the most talented boys and girls have passed the examinations and became students of the higher schools. And thousands of talented young people will study at the prestigious institutions of higher education in other countries.

”Today when high technologies are intensively developed you should not forget that the summits of progress can be reached only through science and deep knowledge. Therefore the desire to study, the aspiration to know as much as possible, to become highly qualified specialists so that you could glorify the Turkmen people in the third millennia should be essential for you.

”Science and education – the groundwork of the prosperous life and happy future of the people. At all times a teacher has been an honourable profession. He who gives knowledge to others deserves profound respect. In our country integrated in world community the profession of a teacher is highly esteemed as never before. The concern for teachers will be in the focus of attention of the Government.

”In our times when scientific advances, latest technologies are applied in all spheres of the life, the perfect educational system is being formed, fostering the civil notions to youth on the basis of the national and universal values underlies the large-scale science and education reforms and is the major requirement of the new historical epoch. Here we have high hopes for educational workers, teachers. Teachers’ creative labour promotes successfully furthering the education reform. Along with knowledge you should foster high morality in children, let it be your matter of honour.

”I believe you will spare no effort and knowledge, creative labour and inspiration to bring the Motherland up to a higher level.

”The Turkmen state will continue heavily investing in the development of science and education. Because teaching a well-educated generation – the groundwork of the worthy and happy life of the people.”