01 September 2014, 08:00
Today you, representatives of the generation born already in the in the free Ukraine, overstep the threshold of educational temples. The first-graders will make their first steps in the school corridors, will get acquainted with their First teacher, and will make the first trip into the school country of knowledge. This is an awesome event that each of you will remember for a life term.
All pupils and students have at once grown by one grade or one course. You have become one step closer to an adult and independent life. Lessons, subjects, home assignments, classes and auditoriums. Each day will bring you new knowledge that in the future will become the foundation of Your personal successes and the success of our country.
Our country runs into the beginning of this academic year during one of the most dramatic period of its history. Unfortunately, the First Bell will not sound in all the Ukrainian schools and higher educational establishments. However, the Ukrainian authority does its best to switch educational process onto its natural track.
The happy and successful future of our country depends on you – the today’s pupils and students. And it will certainly be so.
With all my heart I wish you sound health, persistence in reaching your aim, as well as new discoveries and victories. May the First of September bring into the school classes and students’ auditoriums the holiday spirit, the joy of communication with friends and readiness to obtain the highest grades in education!
I wish peace to all of us!
Oleksandr TURCHYNOV