Education is a road to freedom! It is a road to a strong, united and democratic statehood, Europe, prosperity! It leads to the overcoming of even most difficult challenges that our country faces nowadays” announced Mamuka Bakhtadze, Prime Minister of Georgia at the launch of a seminar titled as Teacher – Companion Towards Europe”.

In the opinion of the Head of Government of Georgia, education is the only right way forward and that is why it manifests itself as a national idea.

Prime Minister of Georgia stressed the need to further reward teachers and noted that a wide-scale reform of the education sector, which implies the investment of 6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). i.e. quarter of the State Budget of Georgia towards this end inter alia envisages the increased remuneration of teachers.

“It is very hard for me to hear and see the statistical data evidencing that wages and salaries of teachers in Georgia are below the average payroll. It is a very grim occurrence. You may well be aware that my legislative initiative on the national idea has been submitted to the Parliament of Georgia. To reform the education system in the country, according to which 6% of GDP, i.e. quarter of the State Budget will always be invested in education. It will be an obligation for every successive government in the following dozens of years. Reform inter alia aims to reward teachers in the country and make the profession well-regarded. I strongly believe that any society or state that does not reward its teachers, will have no future in the 21st century and may even lose its past and values. Education is the national idea, around which every single citizen of Georgia should become united. Today I am honored to address the audience that has the best knowledge of education and its significance. They share my belief that success of Georgia rests in education” – noted the Prime Minister of Georgia.