UNEDUCATED BUT HAPPY : BULGARIA 



Photo by Theron J. Damon 



Photo by Hester Donaldson Jenkins 



BULGARIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS: IS NOT EDUCATION WORTH WHILE? 



"Often the daughter of an unlettered peasant, living in a remote village, after some years 

 o£ schooling, will take her place in Sofia or Varna as a teacher or leader in civic betterment. 

 Her peasant costume and knitted footwear she exchanges for a European dress in excellent 

 taste. The heav}'-, falling braids of her hair she now arranges in the fashion of the day. 

 Her manner becomes assured, yet modest, and she takes her place as a leader of a woman's 

 reading club or a member of a hospital board with proper dignitj^ ... I was told in 

 Sofia that women from the college were the greatest influence for higher ideals that the city 

 possessed" (see text, page 398). 



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