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To: Bicycle who wrote (10437)9/29/2001 3:38:15 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
<<There, sitting at crate-desks in the narrow ways to avoid the heat, children did their homework. You don’t see this in Brazil.>>

No you don't see this in Brazil. And that's the root of the problem. People in many countries in the world have lost their faith in education. And when this happens, there's no way you can get up.

I study a lot the Brazilian education system. Brazil invests 60% of all money in education for 500.000 university students. The remaining 40% goes for 30 million basic education kids.
The authorities say that to achieve a 50-50 balance it is not possible. The lobby of the middle class and the university establishment will not allow.

Countries like Brazil and Nigeria -two typical examples- lost their faith in education because there's no meritocracy. One is not judged by what he learned but by whom he knows in corridors of power.

Adding that that the secondary school prepares you to nothing practical but to prepare yourself to the university and you have lots of kids dropping out to idle away or go try their luck in soccer. Because the kids are not stupid. They know that this schooling is pure waste of time.

I dropped out and went on to educate myself to prepare for a profession. But not many can do this by pulling up themselves by their own hairs.
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