Before being the name of a participant in reality formats, Matsa is the name of a heroine from Dimitar Talev's novel “The Bells of Prespa” . Matsa is a sleepy woman who, after three hundred canards, sends her daughter to school with the newly arrived teacher Ivanka Rumenova. Because “the female family does not need science“.
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In the scene from the novel, Matza washes pans at the well, and the daughter comes home from school. A basic moment follows.
- Good evening, dear mother. Matza drops the pan.
– Who taught you so, child?
- The teacher. And I promised to go again tomorrow.
– You will go, child, God bless the teacher.
After Matsa tells the neighborhood about the benefits of going to school, Avram Nemtur's old house, which is used by the “institution”, becomes overcrowded and cramped.
There is little left of that, Talevoto, in today's Bulgarian school.
But the Bulgarian still has the belief that school is the most direct way to wealth, well-being and respect in society.
This faith has no analogue. Only in some Asian countries is a good education a passport to high society. But in these countries, good education is a patent of high society. Only it can afford it. And so the circle closes.
In Bulgaria, historically, education of any kind has been universal and equal, even before we had a modern state.
Both poor and rich have had – and they still have – equal access to quality – whatever is said, education.
This is the Bulgarian advantage over the so-called developed democracies.
Deviation. Nowadays, school should not be an incubator for knowledge so much as for ethics. To teach people the concepts of good and evil.
But that is another and more extensive topic.
The main thing is, if there is someone to hear and someone to understand, education remains as it was – open and accessible, democratic, for all.
It can be pompous. But our future as a nation depends on it.
Happy new school year. May God give wisdom to the ministers and their superiors.