Mammad Garayev was born in 1887 in a poor family in Salahli village of Gazakh. He lost his parents at the youngest age, and saw every face of poverty. Teacher Ahmed aga Mustafayev has taken his guidanship and educated him.
Firidun bey Vocharli wrote about Garayev that in the seminary Garayev was distinguished with his exemplary morality and was considered a favorutie of all.
Mammad Garayev graduated from Gori Teachers Seminar in 1906 and arrived in Baku. However, the young teacher moves to the village of Garabagh – Malibeyli by the advice of the doctors because of the tuberculosis. Mammad Garayev opens a girls’ school in Malibeyli village in 1910. That was a great event for that time.
When a girls’ school was opened in Shusha in 1911, Mammad Garayev was very glad and wrote in the magazine “Ishigh”: “Today I’m delighted with the double. Now I do not need to be afraid of it … I am not alone in the square. I congratulate that the second swallow of Karabakh was opened in its heart, in Shusha city and I say: You are wellcome.
This young teacher had a great respect among peasants and schoolchildren. In 1912, Malibeyli girls school pupils donated an original carpet and gave a gift to their favorite teacher Mammad Garayev as a symbol of respect. On the carpet, the following words are written: “It is a remembrance for our beloved teacher Mammad Garayev from the students of the Malibayli school.”
Mammad Bey Garayev, along with his lectures, also featured articles in periodical press and pupils for children.
Mammad Garayev’s untimely death shook his friends. In 1913, writer, educator Suleiman Sani Akhundov wrote in the magazine “Mekteb”: “Oh! How did you quickly get out, Oh? How did you wear black to girls who were quickly brought up the by the fruit of grace and virtue? Do not worry, oh good spirit, relax in bed! The work you did and the ways you showed are unforgettable. Don’t say that graveyard has gone abroad, and every aspect of the homeland that loves his nation is homeland. ”
Source: Misir Mardanov. History of Azerbaijan’s education. “Education” publishing house, 2011. Baku, vol. 1, 295 p.

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