Hamlet Isaxanli In Search of “Khazar” - DSpace at Khazar University

26In Search of "Khazar"The Prime Minister smiled:- Well, I’ve invited you here today in thisconnection. I want to understand how serious your plansare.Suddenly, a wave of excitement raised inside ofme. I realized how very important this meeting couldbe, and I felt a conviction that something beautiful isabout to happen. This moment calmed me down, I feltthat everything now depended on my faith in myself andon my ability to be convincing. I became encouraged inthe way a chess-player who has an opportunity todemonstrate a good game would be. Of course, H.Hasanov’s high spirits that day, his well-wishingattitude and ability to see a problem quickly inspiredme. I took the initiative in my hands and relaxed, like ifI was talking to a colleague, and not to the PrimeMinister:- A breath of fresh air, a new movement in thehigher education system of Azerbaijan is as necessary asbread, as water. The deepening crisis of our educationsystem is obvious, it doesn’t need any specialexplanation. No measures are being taken to improvethe situation. Yet it will not be possible to makesubstantial changes in the entire education system. Ithink, one of the ways is to establish a new type ofprivate colleges and universities.H. Hasanov stopped me:- What do you mean by a new type? And what iswrong with the Soviet education?I explained:- Nobody denies the achievements of Sovietscience and the Soviet institutes of higher learning arenot bad either. But it’s not the point. What I want to sayis that the best times of our institutes are in the past, the