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I don't intend getting drawn into one of those classic Goanet debates.
But if Antonio Menezes, whose writing I admire, re-reads what I wrote,
he may perhaps realise I indicated no proportion or percentage of
educated and not-so-educated Goans who emigrated to British India.
And did the church in Goa really deny "education to the poor?"
Maybe I have to learn more, but my impression was that close on the
heels of the colonial state, it was the church that imparted -- other than
Jezu, Jezu -- instruction in the ABCs, 123s and DoReMis. Despite the
*Grande Patriarca Portugues das Indias Orientais* or whatever his
honorific title!
-v
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Menezes" <[email protected]>
To: "goanet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:28 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Goan emigration -- 3 (Herald August 2 )
Antonio responds: I fully agree with what Valmiki has written ecept when
he writes "" a
large idle population of educated and not so ''' It somehow gives the
impression that Goans
who migrated to India were 90% educated and 10% illiterate whereas in
reality it was the other way
around i.e. 90% illiterate and 10% literate. The latter were mostly from
the so called high
castes fellas who were educated inthe parochial schools.. Thanks to the
Grande Patriarca
Portugues das Indias Orientais and his sacerdotal assistants comprising of
the highest
caste made by the Indian God, the illiterate Goan catholics were more at
home with
Jezu, Jezu than with A,B,C, and 1,2,3,
The Goan catholic church may not have been entirely wrong in denying
education to poor
Goan catholics. Teotonio R.De Souza writing on Medieval Goa ( Herald Aug
1 )
quotes St. Paul writing toRomans ''''Noli propter escam destruere opus
Dei ---
Do not destroy God's work for the sake of food.''''
