I was inspired by a very beautiful looking video (created with AI), but unfortunately with scientific errors.
Precisely on Alphabet Day, November 22, 2025, it is advertised as an excellent work of a child/student only 10 years old, who learns and is educated in a school in our country.
I congratulate the little boy for creating this impressive video using technology, but I don’t know who this student’s history teacher is.
The video talks about personalities who participated in the Congress of Manastir and who, with their wise minds and words, brought about a very important moment in the history of our nation: the unification of the alphabet (Congress of Manastir, November 14–22, 1908).
The video mentions Petro Nini Luarasi and also Faik Konica as Congress personalities.
Meanwhile, in archival documents and the press of the time, Faik Konica was the personality who did not accept the call of the Congress of Manastir and did not even participate, for two reasons:
1. The invitation to participate in the Congress was sent late;
2. Konica had a different concept about the path that should be followed for the unification of the Albanian alphabet. According to him, this important issue should not be decided by a broad and diverse forum.
The fact that other well-known intellectuals in the field of linguistics, such as Aleksandër Xhuvani, Asdreni, AZ Çajupi, Shtjefën Gjeçovi, and Konica himself, did not participate in the Congress was deliberate, so as not to have them as “disruptors” during the proceedings.
I cited this historical fact to show that teaching has lost its role and mission in the modern era. Teachers who do not know scientific truths, teachers who do not confront the facts, teachers who talk to students about historical events and figures without browsing and verifying the sources…
Personally, with 20 years of experience in pre-university and university education, I believe that it is necessary to review the curriculum, where the subject of history should be given special importance. History should be a national priority. Forming students from an early age with accurate scientific concepts consolidates their personality as European citizens.
Teachers also need to be trained in science, to organize discussion tables on innovations in science, to face the truths, and to be at the service of educating the new generation.
It would be even more worrying if the little boy in the video took the text from the history book he is studying. Furthermore, he is not educated through creative work, but simply through colorful facades and AI effects.
How could it not occur to the teacher who monitored this work that the little one should take care of a very important fact: the participation for the first time of a woman in the congress — of Sevastija Qiriazi!
This would have extraordinary value in the civic education of children, would make them develop critical thinking and would naturally acquire civic competence.
The participation of a woman in Congress at that time was a great achievement. Students would understand a lot about gender equality in decision-making, about the rights and responsibilities of the individual in society, and about the importance of education in the consolidation of the nation-state.
We all agree on one fact: the “problem with textbooks,” Altertext, or even the curriculum as a whole.
But the teacher needs to know something important — something I often tell teacher education students and practicing teachers:
“The teacher today must be able to build his own lesson with resources and materials completely different from the textbook, but while rigorously adhering to the program approved by the Ministry of Education.”
This means that the teacher should abandon the template text if it does not match the needs of the students or does not provide the appropriate pedagogical apparatus.
But are teachers in our pre-university system able to do this? Unfortunately not.
For many reasons… where the higher education curriculum and the modules offered also play an important role.
Personally, I am a strong supporter of all teachers and — if I had my way — they would be the highest paid people in the country, with one standard:
“In education, those who DESERVE it remain.”
But in a system where the incompetent has put the wise, the intellectual, the visionary teacher ahead with his ignorance, it has become an impossible mission.
Dear teachers, do your job with passion. Your children and students are not to blame for this system. But don’t leave them as permanent “chalamans” on earth.
If a doctor’s mistake puts you in the ground, a teacher’s mistake leaves you crippled forever!
Ka përfunduar studimet universitare në Histori në Universitetin e Elbasanit “Aleksandër Xhuvani” në vitin 2006 dhe ka fituar gradën shkencore Doktore e Shkencave në Histori në Universitetin e Tiranës në vitin 2015.
Në mars 2024 është emëruar, Profesore e Asociuar dhe aktualisht mban detyrën e Përgjegjëses së Departamentit të Studimeve Albanologjike dhe Ballkanike pranë Universitetit të Elbasanit.
Ajo zotëron një përvojë të gjerë profesionale si në arsimin parauniversitar, ashtu edhe në arsimin e lartë. Paralelisht, ushtron rolin e trajneres kombëtare pranë Ministrisë së Arsimit, është eksperte e jashtme për ASCAL dhe anëtare e Shoqatës së Mësuesve të Historisë Shqiptare (ALBNA).
