Бит и възпитание
Way of Life and Education

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the functions of the way of life in education along five basic lines. 1. A study is made of the educational functions of the way of life, when it interpenetrates others of its components among people: the prolongation of education in labour, school, etc., in the sphere of the way of life which outlines the unity and variety of social education in general. 2. The educational potential of the way of life is shown not only in its totality and realization, but also within its very structure-forming component, and in the mutual dependence and mutual influence of its structure-forming components. 3. The subject of this study is the complex and contradictory reality which imposes our present on the traditional way of life and its educational purpose, science-technical progress, the dynamic processes of migration and urbanization, etc. 4. Taking into consideration the circumstance that the vast part of our history was lived under the conditions of the feudal development of society, and that capitalism in Bulgaria did not succeed in eliminating many of the patriarchal-family relations, customs and traditions, formed in the past, a thesis is formulated about the marked importance of the Bulgarian family in the system of which the family-festive custom and ritual life of the Bulgarians functions with an exceptional educational charge. 5. An attempt is made in the study to outline the educational 'difference specifics' of the Bulgarian people's way of life. To put it more concretely, bearing in mind the dismal fact that their history was lived mostly under the conditions of alien (Byzantine, and chiefly Ottoman) bondage, which did away for a long time with the State, political and, to more than a small extent, the economic aspects of the social and national education of our people, the thesis is put forward that the Bulgarian people's way of life was inevitably burdened with greater and important educational obligations than would have been the case under the traditional conditions of development in other countries and among other peoples. The general intention of the study is, first, to show the way of life as a sui generis social-educational institution, and, second, to draw attention to the problems of this way of life from the point of view of the theory of social education.

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