Bulgaria's education system obsolete

The economist and university professor Assen Bogdanov complains in the daily Trud of the backwardness of the Bulgarian education system: "Instead of becoming a centre for innovation, science and erudition, our universities have remained obsolete schools of the type we had under communism. Teachers and professors 'teach' obsolete and backward-looking ideas that the students are supposed to learn by heart and then repeat on command. ... But the information society demands that students arrive at knowledge by their own means, through research carried out under the guidance of their teachers. Our students don't even use the Internet to broaden and update their knowledge on the basis of what is generally known. No one teaches the students how to change knowledge through innovation and to profit by the result, or to market their knowledge as an intellectual product either at home or abroad."

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