Today Poland celebrates the fact that that day, in 1773, KEN or body that introduced Europe’s first ever coherent and homogenous national educational system was founded. This day of year is now called Dzień Nauczyciela (The Teacher’s Day) Today teachers are given best wishes, flowers and are kind not to do tests or other unpleasant things like that. And speaking of tests, a short one is called kartkówka and the major, 45 mins one - klasówka. We call best male student/pupil prymus and a female one - prymuska . And Polish GCSE is called matura.
