Lukashenko to Children’s Technopark pupils: create for the sake of peace, your country needs you
Thanks to the youngsters who demonstrate outstanding abilities, a real youth research centre has appeared in Belarus – the National Children’s Technopark. During the Knowledge Day solemn assembly, the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, wished the students to set big goals and create for the sake of peace.
Addressing the pupils, the Head of State noted, “You are still making timid steps into the fascinating world of knowledge and discoveries. But you must remember that you are standing on the shoulders of such giants of scientific thought as Zhores Alferov, Pavel Sukhoi, Mikhail Vysotsky and many other of our world-famous compatriots. Let all the examples I have given you become your life guide. They were able to, and you will certainly be able to become the first, writing down your names into the history of science and the history of your Fatherland, if you are faithful to your vocation and scientific truth.”
The Belarusian leader stressed that it was thanks to the children present and their peers demonstrating outstanding abilities that a real youth scientific centre appeared in Belarus, “I believe in you and I’m convinced that today I’m talking with would-be Belarusian academicians, inventors, and creators of new products. Set big goals for yourself. Create for the sake of peace... And remember that your country really needs you. I congratulate you and all Belarusian schoolchildren, students, cadets on Knowledge Day!”
The President separately addressed the teachers, “All this [school] is a temple of knowledge. Order must always reign in this temple. There shouldn’t be any mess here. These are the strictest rules: you came to study and get knowledge, so you must do it, so that later, when you you’re 30-40 years old, you don’t walk to the street, shouting to give you the ‘salary like theirs’. The question always arises: how you studied at school, how you mastered new knowledge, how you generally lived this life.”
As the President noted, many of those who scream most in the street turned out to be not the most conscientious students in their time, who came to school not for knowledge.
“It’s very important how you lived this difficult period of life [study]. This largely depends on us: parents and teachers. But most of all, it depends on you. You’re doing great! You took a risk. I congratulate you and wish you success on this difficult path.”
