Апология на Болонската декларация против мърморковците
Apologia Declarationis Boloniensis contra murmurantes (Apology of the Bologna Declaration against the murmurers)

Summary/Abstract: This paper originated as a presentation in the discussion “Bologna initiative in Eastern Europe: Political opportunism or the last chance for a reform”, chaired by Voldemar Tomusk. This was the final step in the track “Prague Summit 2001” of the 24th Annual EAIR forum, held in Prague in September 2002. My main ambition in this text is not only to advocate in favour of the Bologna declaration and to appeal for quicker impact and implementation of its values in the European countries. My greatest intention in this essay is to remind the over-skeptical colleagues that despite the sociological reductionism, the ideas and the ideals do exist. True, some of them sometimes turn out to be naïve neo-romantic utopias. But nevertheless, it is a ridiculous over-simplification to emphasize that the Bologna ideals are only stupid contrivances of some clerks in Brussels and some politicians all over the continent. On the contrary: They have their own immanent origin and an enormous inspiring force over many humble university persons, especially in Eastern Europe.

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