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Nothwithstanding Antonio Menezes'  grudge against the "high-caste fellas", I 
really wonder whether caste really played a part in education in Parochial 
schools. Valmiki has some investigation to perform in this regard :-). 

First of all, to which segment of population was the the Vavraddeancho Ixxt 
aimed at?
Secondly, did the Parochial schools impart only music? or was it in addition to 
the basics of reading and arithmetic? 

I ask because I am puzzled. Many musicians of the Goa Symphony Orchestra of 
1952 were field workers, who were searched for in the muddy fields of Salcette 
and Sanguem. They not only could play very effectively, as reported to me by a 
now-retired octogenerian musician in London,  Antonio "Oboe" Noronha, but as 
far as I could ascertain, they could also read, write and keep "contas". 

Gabriel


----- Original Message ----
From: Antonio Menezes <[email protected]>
To: goanet <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 2 August, 2009 5:35:47 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,



      
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