This is an extract from Mr. Ashot Bleyan’s diary note for the 8th of November.
Once again about Davit and once again about a pedagogical step which is to be made. Arminae is trying to convince Davit: “Dear Davit, you should pay a more serious attention to your piano lessons. You should practice playing the piano every day so that your fingers can get used to it, and you can play the piano better and give concerts.”
“Mummy, I go to my piano lessons to create music not to learn to play the piano.”
What will Davit’s music teacher Lilit Arakelyan do? … During the music lessons she sometimes tells Davit about Charles Aznavour and sometimes about Charles Chaplin. She is doing her best to attract his attention, enhance his musical taste and satisfy our son’s craving interest. As for playing the piano… I am quoting Lilit’s latest viber message: “During the lesson Davit creates a piece of music and says, “Ms. Lilit play this on the piano.”
Dear Lilit, our family, Bleyan’s pedagogy is the client for such further musical education. We call this an individual’s author education. What are the educational blogs of Davit’s teachers for? What is your blog for, Lilit Arakelyan? Aren’t they for registering and publishing pieces of students’ spontaneous creations and this way publicizing our author education as an open system?
I am wonder why they don’t give fathers an obligatory paid holiday during the last two weeks of their wives’ prenatal care. Do you imagine a community where a child’s birth, the highest manifestation of love and creativity, is provided with such protection? …
You should assess the dangers that the Educomplex always has during the post-revolutionary period of euphoria. The Educomplex has always been against the traditional state cram schools. Respect my copyright. I am the symbol of this 30-year-old creator’s mobile school and struggle against cram schools. What are these illegal current checks of the schoolchildren’s knowledge for with sample tests? On the other hand the Minister of education is constantly stating that he is against cram schools.
The English translation by Yura Ganjalyan