“The Ministry of Education can’t simply decide what first-grade students will study without a broad public consensus”
Hristo Georgiev is 19 years old. He recently graduated from school, and was so disillusioned that he wrote his own educational reform project in the space of about two years. So far, the Ministry of Education and Science has not paid much attention to his work. Nevertheless, the protests organised for May 8 and 15, according to preliminary data, will gather thousands of people to protest against the mandatory introduction of the subject “Virtues and Religions” from 1st grade onwards. Hristo has read plenty of extremely serious political and economic literature, including the Power and Responsibility series published by Ciella and authors such as Catherine Belton, Gideon Rachman. His favourite is Timothy Snyder. He has undertaken comparative and historical analysis of the Bulgarian and world educational systems. He has ideas. He has character. He has a major goal: he wants the voice of school pupils not to go unheard in the conversation about changes in Bulgarian education.
