A Letter to the One Who Will Come Tomorrow

Hello, my friend! A seventeen-year-old Sebastatsi school leaver is standing in front of you. I want to speak to you and share my impressions, ideas about Sebastatsi life with you and also give you some advice. Let me tell you a secret: the main aim of the school is the formation of versed learners with their own point of views. To be a success in the Educomplex it is not enough to learn by heart what is written in the text-books. Be curious about local and international news, have your own opinion and be ready to voice it, write articles and publish them, make films and radio materiaals, translate, organize debates and seminars, invite specialists and interesting personalities.  Do whatever you want to do, learn what you are interested in. You are given a chance to manage your time, so try to spend it on self-education and self-promotion. But there is one rule: you should be open, frank and ndependent like our school without walls. Nobody will praise you if you repeat the teacher's opinion, and nobody will reproach you if you insist on yours. Be free and use your chance of self-expression. Be a demanding learner: the learners in the Educomplex are always encouraged to demand that the teachers work with them. You can freely ask your questions to the teachers during the intervals and get they will willingly answer them. Undertake something and wou will be encouraged. Self-education is almost as important as team work. Be able to share your knowledge with your friend and be open to get new knowledge. Forget all your perceptions about traditional school. This is a school of merry learners, kind and friendly teachers and a smiling headmaster. Love your school and take care of it. You will very often go on educational trips. Be ready to walk for kilometers, to get tired and be cold. Be friendly and accommodating: arrogance and pomposity do not go with a Sebastatsi. Our school seems to be a body separated from general existing environment. Value what it gives you, and always be afraid that one day you will be deprived of it when you find yourself in another environment. Try to spread everything you experience and see at school as it is something strange and incredible for the people outside the school. Spread the way of thinking which you have learned at school so as to change everything you don’t like, everything which is bad but compulsory, and yet people do that without comprehending; spread your way of thinking so as to transform them into outspoken and free Sebastatsies. Maybe that is the main mission of Sebastatsies.

P.S. The last rule is that you should forget about rules.

Sincerely Yours, Mary Telunts