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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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Why talk about Algarve in 1977 and Goa pre-1961? Children in a number of parts
of this world even today, including the "first" world, have to travel long
distances to school, especially those who live in rural areas.
PS I had read somewhere about children in Japan having to start their mornings
as early as 5:00 am to get to school - could someone elaborate on this "fact"?
Gabriel.
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> From: eric pinto <[email protected]>
> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, 7 January, 2010 2:27:36 AM
> Subject: [Goanet] Algarve Schooling - 1977.
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> Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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> Prof. Michael Pearson of Sydney, Australia, wrote his "Portuguese in India"
> in
> 1987. Here is the absolute last paragrph and sentence in the book: I imagine
> he
> relished the anticlimatic ending !
> ' In a particular coastal area in 1977, 70% of houses had no electric
> light,
> 40% of the rural population was illiterate, and in 1983 children still had to
> ride 10 kilometers to get to a primary school. This is not some backward pat
> of
> Goa; this is the Alentejo region of southern Portugal.'
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> >From AM.
> Lisboa is a metropolis, fine ! Take Estremadura or Algarve instead and
> compare the number of Lyceums there with the measly three in the
> glorious Provincia Ultramarina de Portugal also known as Goa AM
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