This school year we have no excuse, we really have no excuse, we cannot pass on the burden of the epidemic to the children. This was stated by the former Minister of Education Krassimir Valchev to BNT today.
He strongly endorses the beginning of the school year, because education suffers from online learning.
“It is a fact that education has suffered,” he commented on last year’s closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Children’s motivation to learn has suffered. (…) but also physical activity, mental problems have accumulated.All this has formed a consensus that we should strive for maximum face-to-face training.
The main reason why schools were closed last school year was that there were no vaccines or not enough vaccines. At the end of the school year, when there were enough vaccines, the situation was better. This school year we have no excuse, we really have no excuse, we cannot pass on the burden of the epidemic to the children. “
On the occasion support for the nomination of Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov for president – his personal and that of GERB – Valchev explained his motivation and distinguished the candidacy, its possible perception as a party one:
“The goal is not to unite the parties. The goal is not to return GERB to power. The goal is to have a relative public consensus, achieved on the basis of conversations on the most important topics – how we want to develop, in what society we want to live, what will be our priority. Education for example. I am deeply convinced that education and science can make us a good and prosperous society. The other is to raise children as good people. He shared this mission with me. Perhaps this is also the reason for my strong conviction that he should be the candidate to be supported. “
His assessment of Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov – current rector of Sofia University and former Deputy Minister of Education – is that he is “an indisputable scholar and authority, a broad-minded man who argues without offending, a man who achieves his goals. “. Bulgaria needs such a person, says Valchev.
For him, some political leaders are now “hostages to sowing hatred and division.” From now on, they “must show leadership and say, ‘Look, we have the responsibility of statesmen, not just politicians.’ I am convinced that Professor Gerdjikov will be a statesman,” he concluded.
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