On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:09 PM, V M <[email protected]> wrote: "It is widely known and accepted that Portugal is "the least educated country in Europe", and has remained so for hundreds of years, besides another severe setback relative to other Western countries during the Salazar years."
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704076804576180522989644198 "The repressive dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1926 to 1974 had the idea "that people should not have ambition to be something different than what they were," Mr. Nóvoa says. The result was widespread illiteracy and little formal schooling; just three years were compulsory. Huge leaps have been made since the 1970s, he says, but "it is not easy to change a history of five centuries." COMMENT: While it is weirdly amusing that VM is still stuck with Salazar and the pre1974 Portugal wsrt Goa, I prefer to read the WSJ for financial news - NOT for political, geopolitical or educational news and analysis. It is a Rt Leaning paper which is, at best, filtered and cross-referenced when non financial articles are published. Honestly, I believe that VM knows as much about education as I do; which is not very much. That is why I prefer to refer to a set of impartial reviews written by educationists. For, One Swallow does not make a Summer. jc
