The school makes today textbooks or teaches lessons based on a past experience, but for a generation that is to live in the future, writer and book editor Mircea V. Ciobanu stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe, quoted by IPN.
Mircea V. Ciobanu said the textbooks appeared together with Moldova’s independence and there were no textbook authors in Moldova before the proclamation of independence. “All the textbooks were translated from Russian, except for the then Moldovan language textbooks. And this experience is not so long that we can be very tough on authors today. But it exists and the sad part is that it is sufficient for the authors to indulge in this and believe that they achieved particular results already,” he stated.
According to the writer, the current textbooks are not bad, but not yet good. “There can be different opinions, but these textbooks are edited by contest. When all the bids are submitted, the commission chooses the best one. So, we now have the best possible textbooks. Here we cannot reproach something to ourselves. Secondly, these textbooks are ultimately the product of this society. They are the product of the class of teachers that design them,” said Mircea V. Ciobanu.
He also said that the textbook authors must be among the first to be dissatisfied with the textbooks and then the assessment commissions should be dissatisfied. The contests for some of the textbooks are international and involve a number of teams that can present the best bid.
