„All who have meditated on the art to governing  people have been convinced that the fate of nations depends on the education of youth.”

Aristotle

Education is an individual and social good and it is therefore a personal and social responsibility. It is not and should not only be the concern of the state, but also of the separate individual as well as of the society as a whole, as represented by its diverse organizations and associations. The access to different degrees and forms of education is the right of every citizen, but the acquisition of education depends on the personal potential and resources of the individual.

In the beginning of the 21^st century in developing countries like Bulgaria higher education has long become a mass necessity, rather than remaining an elite value. Higher schools take part in the market of education services, since the main result of their activity obtains market realization. They try to coordinate their activity with market mechanisms because under the conditions of market economy free competition is the main moving force of their development. As a full member of the EU, the Bulgarian nation is facing the strategic goal to become, socially and economically, a part of the European community. The only right way to conduct this ‘external’ integration is the internal integration, i.e. the creation of an integrated civil society in Bulgaria. Education is, if not the most important, then at least one of the most important instruments of the construction of an integrated civil society, because all educated persons, reaching the maximum of their intellectual development, are beneficial both to themselves and to the whole society.

The team of the

Student Society for the Development of Interethnic Dialogue