Education

While reading material about the upcoming debates on the topic of the “modernization” of higher education in Bulgaria, I came across a text that can clearly illustrate the essence of the problem[1]. At the end of the cited article, there are several questions asked that I would like to pay attention to, adding a few small corrections (on my behalf in italics …

500 years ago, Martin Luther launched a campaign against the financial corruption and moral decay of the Roman Catholic world. At that time, the Western church had been transformed from a voluntary religious community into a totalitarian political institution aimed at accumulating power and wealth. Luther rightly insisted that the long-delayed spiritual reformation could not be …

This is an abridged version of the report presented by Daniel Vassilev during the First Meeting on Free Education, organized by the National Network of Parents. When comparing economic indicators – such as GDP per capita and labor productivity – of Bulgaria and a Western country, especially non-economists rarely …

Roger Martin reached out his hand to the cloudy Canadian sky on October 17, 2012. A few raindrops wet his palm as he stood with his back to the University of Toronto main building, where he had just left. He turned his head for a moment and surveyed the ancient buildings. Most of them dated from the period …

It's mid-January and the results of the university rankings are already out. While prospective students and their parents wait for the overloaded server to load where it would be best to enroll in the fall (in case they stay in Bulgaria), here we will offer them an alternative view of the ranking itself – how much …

This text is inspired by the journalistic coverage of the successes achieved by a homeschooled boy from Smolensk. And more specifically, by the conversation in the studio of the morning block on bTV between the host Genka Shikerova and the guests, who represent, on the one hand, the Ministry of Education and, on the other, a group of parents who are fans of democratic learning. Tatyana …

More and more people are realizing the ineffectiveness of the education offered by public schools. The most obvious sign of this is the growing number of young people who pay for private lessons.1 Both students and their parents see that it is impossible to obtain quality training in a given subject through school activities alone. The desire of the rulers …

More and more people are realizing the ineffectiveness of the education offered by public schools. The most obvious sign of this is the growing number of young people who pay for private lessons.1 Both students and their parents see that it is impossible to obtain quality training in a given subject through school activities alone. The desire of the rulers …

One of the most frequently repeated refrains from the Bulgarian teachers' union is that the amount of funds that Bulgaria allocates for education is too small. It is true that the Bulgarian state's spending on education as a share of GDP is the lowest in the EU, but this fact in itself is not …

It is often discussed how Bulgaria (as well as other countries from the former socialist bloc) should adopt Western culture and production methods. Unfortunately, the West, having quickly forgotten its lessons from the socialism of the last century, has with a cheerful and naive leap set off on the path to the same system that it spat out so much...