Our message to all students in all our schools is very clear: study  well so that you can live well - Nikol Pashinyan 

ArmInfo.  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening ceremony of the new building of the Valery Sargsyan Music School in Sevan Community, Gegharkunik Region.

More than 344 million drams were spent on the construction of the  two-story music school. The building construction program was  implemented by the Hayastan All- Armenian Fund, and the musical  instruments and other technical equipment were provided by the  Government. In total, the school can accommodate about 230 students.  It is equipped with modern water supply, sewage, heating, fire  protection, ventilation, gas supply, and electricity supply systems.  Fencing, area improvement, and landscaping works were also carried  out.

In his speech, Nikol Pashinyan thanked the donor families, their  representatives, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund and the fund's French  office. According to the Prime Minister, the school construction  program is a typical example of cooperation between the Government  and the Diaspora. The Prime Minister also emphasized that thanks to  the Government's certification program, the salaries of a number of  music school teachers have increased significantly. "I think the  times when we used to say that strategies in the education sector are  very important for us are over, because now we say that education is  our strategy. In other words, there is no sector in which education  is not at the forefront of our ideas for reforms and development,"  said Nikol Pashinyan, adding that everyone, from a child attending  kindergarten to the Prime Minister, should consider education and  getting educated a priority, because it is the most reliable and only  way to ensure development.

In this context, the Prime Minister highlighted the importance of the  Government's message to children about why education, capital  investments in the education sector, and creating proper conditions  for education are important: "And our message to all students in all  our schools is very clear: study well so that you can live well. If  you, children, live well through education, your family will also  live well, and with your family, your community, with your community,  your region, and with your region, your state."

Nikol Pashinyan noted that this is what the "300 Schools, 500  Kindergartens" program is aimed at, around which the Government's  strategic ideas have been focused.

The Prime Minister emphasized that these newly constructed buildings  should not serve only for the implementation of school programs, but  should also serve other functions of art and music education. Nikol  Pashinyan noted that the Government will continue the program of  building new music, art, and sports schools in places where there  will be an objective need for this infrastructure in order to create  the opportunity to provide proper education. "We will have a high  school of arts in the Academic city, which, in our opinion, will  become an accelerator for developing the talent of the most talented  children in music, literature, and other areas of art," said Nikol  Pashinyan.  Summing up his speech, the Prime Minister once again  emphasized the need to provide all newly constructed educational  institutions with new property.