/ world as we speak information/ The good Russian scientist and thinker academician Dmitry Likhachev was one of many few Russian brothers who acknowledged and publicly acknowledged that Bulgaria gave Russia the alphabet, writing, and faith. What Putin jokingly or honestly stated was from… Macedonia, maybe with out realizing that Macedonia is definitely a primitive a part of Bulgaria, reminiscent of: Mysia, Thrace and Dobrudja. However that’s one other matter – of politics. And it isn’t all the time one thing regular and clear. My phrase is about one thing else. Are we already an “empire of the spirit”, as Likhachev stated, or a tragic results of the insidious American plan, the RAN, conceived within the post-war yr 1947 with the goal of “the degradation of the peoples of the Jap Bloc and particularly of Bulgaria”.
After 1944, nonetheless, this didn’t occur, as a result of the younger nation wanted educated, cultured individuals, specialists in all fields. And that’s the reason our training and tradition had been at an enviable peak. However the change since 1989 has led us down. And the outcomes are already there. Decline in all doable areas – from the financial system, by way of well being care to tradition and training. I used to be not too long ago shocked by some appalling information: our college students had been ranked forty sixth in literacy on the earth, subsequent to Third World international locations like Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Mexico. Our boys had as a lot as 52 p.c literacy, that’s, solely two p.c above the semi-literate. Stunning, is not it?! And so: it seems that each fifth Bulgarian citizen is illiterate – 65 p.c of the Gypsies, 25 p.c of the Turks and 9 p.c of the Bulgarians! Even the candidate college students for Sofia College had been insufficiently literate.
That is what the sociologist Assoc. Prof. Mihail Mirchev wrote about this painful drawback: “The rising illiteracy among the many younger generations is a particularly essential element of our common demographic disaster. It’s alongside these traces that we’re steadily heading for a nationwide catastrophe. Within the sense that when the older generations are changed by the present youthful generations, not solely will there be far fewer individuals of productive age, however their productive and general civic capability will likely be decrease – as a result of massive, ever-growing contingent of illiterates, which suggests asocial. It is a qualitative dimension of the demographic disaster, which has and may have way more extreme penalties than merely decreasing the quantity of substitute younger generations…”
As probably the most illiterate are our fellow residents from fifteen to nineteen years of age!
And I believe, are we within the twenty first century or are we going again to the Center Ages, to the infinite Turkish slavery? However even within the nineteenth century, better care was taken for Bulgarian training. To not point out its speedy rise after the Liberation, the interval between the 2 world wars and the “despised social interval”. Then we had been proud as some of the educated, most civilized and cultural international locations in Europe and on the earth! Our secondary training was exemplary, a mannequin for a lot of cultural Western international locations. We additionally had success in increased training. There was no settlement and not using a faculty and group middle. Training and tradition had been a precedence for the state. And now?
A while in the past, I regarded on the diplomas of my late mom, who graduated from the Ruse ladies’ highschool “Baba Tonka” in 1933, and of my uncle, who additionally graduated in Ruse, from the boys’ highschool “Knyaz Boris Parvi” in 1938. I used to be very impressed by the quantity and character of the scholars disciplines. Even Greek and Latin had been studied within the boys’ highschool. / Now the state has determined to destroy the Nationwide Excessive Faculty for Historic Languages!/ I additionally checked out some preserved textbooks, notebooks and notebooks. What excessive scientific degree?! What number of objects! How severe matters and duties! On the identical time, with many class and take a look at papers and exams, with many grades, excessive necessities. And a scholar habits grade that we stupidly eliminated as we speak. Even the German language examination ended with a translation from the novel Theodore Storm “Imensko Ezero” – degree for a scholar of German philology at SU! And now? Now the state of affairs is downright shameful, deplorable. I noticed a scholar from the Sports activities Faculty in Ruse / and why are these mindless costly faculties producing few champions and extra mutts?!/ who couldn’t write her three names appropriately in a single utility. Or a scholar from the Electrotechnical Faculty who had not heard/ or extra exactly remembered the names of Gogol and Pushkin/, and one other who acknowledged that Petko and Pencho Slaveykovi had been brothers, and Raina Kabaivanska sewed… the flag of the Flying Squad… of Levski!
And our bloated universities are prepared to just accept any semi-literate scholar candidate simply to maintain the state and the subsidy. Delegated budgets / this unprecedented stupidity!/ and autonomy / led to the overproduction of affiliate professors! A few of them brazen plagiarisms, reminiscent of, for instance, the rector from Svishtov!/ turned out to be damaging not just for the theaters, orchestras and operas in our nation / ruined by our uncultured rulers from GERB!/, but additionally for training. However because the Prime Minister stated at a gathering with voters: “I’m easy and you might be easy…”
And the way far we’ll go quickly, solely God is aware of!
B.a. I forgot so as to add: the pocket book of my older sister, who additionally graduated from “Baba Tonka” highschool in Ruse, however in 1954 – it had a separate sheet for every faculty day of the yr, with a whole description of every lesson, every lesson and train, assigned homework , with a word, if any, and at last the instructor’s signature and the guardian’s signature. Now: have you ever seen a faculty pocket book? I not too long ago heard that folks sued a instructor for writing a pair to their son! And college students have rights, however academics do not. Actually, how far have we come?!
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