Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory message on the International Day of Labor and Workers’ Solidarity.
“Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,
On May 1, we celebrate the International Day of Labor and Workers’ Solidarity, and I want to congratulate all of us on this occasion.
Civilization is formed and develops as a result of labor, and labor is the tool with which it is possible to improve the life of an individual and society. The key phrase in what has been said is “possible.” Labor, of course, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving the life of an individual and society because only effective labor brings satisfactory results, and to be effective, labor must be based on knowledge, continuously developing skills that are education and being educated.
When we say education, knowledge, or knowledge-based labor, we usually associate scientific, technical, technological, or research work, which is not wrong.
However, any work is much more effective when it expands and enriches one’s knowledge about the given job and its nuances and peculiarities. This applies to everything: craft, art, entrepreneurship, agriculture, pedagogy, state, military, community service, labor, and leadership, and those states and societies guided by this logic have achieved and continue to achieve prosperity.
The government and the ruling majority lead the Republic of Armenia with this logic, understanding that this is not an easy path because talking about the need to expand knowledge and develop skills means admitting that we do not know something.
And sometimes, at the individual, public, and state levels, it is not easy to admit that we do not know something, although it is evident that not everyone everywhere knows something. We should have the strength to acknowledge that we live badly to the extent of what we do not know and live well to what we know. To expand our well-being, we need to reduce the volume of what we do not know and expand the volume of what we do know, and this is possible through the closest interconnection of work and education, education and work.
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,
I congratulate you all on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity of Labor and Workers. I wish that work means enjoyment of the result and creative joy for all our citizens and our society because work should be a means of creating a result and enjoying that result.
And long live the Republic of Armenia.
