What should be taught

[Ulf]

It depends on what you want to do but to me it is important as you can't understand either biology or Physics without it and it is a good practical use for maths. Personaly I like the sciences and this will obviously bias me towards them, I can't see any point in studying government but hey ho!

Physics > Chemistry > Biology

Of course, these are typically subject to the behemoth called Mathematics.
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I wish there would have been a philosophy class in my high school. I was always reprimanded in 'Language Arts' class because I refused to read the books they prescribed and chose Dostoevsky and Nietzsche instead. I think it confused the teachers as to what to do with me. Should you really reprimand me for reading such things!? up

[Beorn]

An amendment to my original post.

I would insist that this man is wheeled around the world to educate our children. Perhaps us also.

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(thank you Ulf )

[nisse]

Physics > Chemistry > Biology

IMO only Physics>Chemistry works...Biology is not a science

I think "free" education is not such a great idea. It too easily turns into a tool to indoctrinate people. Only math, physics, chemistry, and hands on classes (arts/gym/cooking/shop) should be taught that way...may be very basic language classes and basic biology too. Everything else needs to be directly supervised by the parents (until the children are old enough to have ideas of their own) or the children risk growing up with other people's ideas.

EDIT: I think everything should be taught to children by someone other than the parents, but the parents must look over everything the child is taught and question them about it. This will ensure that the child is exposed to many opinions, but is ultimately most influenced by the parents. In the case of subjects other than the ones I mentioned above the parents should also act as teachers.

[Shkembe Chorba]

Think it's necessary to have a subject National Culture and Folklore, as someone already mention it. We are going 12 years to school and have no classes about our true history as we see it every day. Bulgaria is not economical stable which repels my generation to every aspect of the country's life - culture, political, religious and tradition. We are more interested in traveling in Western Europe (and even our not-so-better countries) than exploring Bulgaria.

And Politics. As for nowadays, I found it pretty important to have political opinion. And more significant - correct political opinion.

[silver_surfer]

Programming should be compulsory too since we are living in information age.