I searched my add of this afternoon because something new occured while I was writing this. In a school in Flanders a 20 year old man stabbed a lot of children with a knife. A huge amount of them were wounded, some dangerously. It was hardly on television here. This proofs the education-system in belgium stinks.
On Jan 23, 12:42 pm, "willy minnen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Belgium has since the start in 1830 two different systems of education. 1) > The 'official schools', organized by the government (federation, provinces, > tows and villages) were entirely free. 2) The catholic schools, organised by > bishops (the official church structures) or congregations of nuns, fathers > and brothers. Catholic 'fathers' mean priests living in congregations. The > brothers were no priests, just like nuns. This structure was complicated but > well organized. In the catholic schools the parents had to pay everything. > Structurally Antwerp still has 3 universities: 1) the existing catholic one, > 2) the existing 'official' one, 3) the normal structure for the new > faculties that did not exist before. These three are incorporated in a main > organisation. > The 'official schools' flow from as catholic as the others but free in > villages governed by the catholics till absolutely atheist in towns like > Antwerp and Brussels. First they were absolutely liberal. As the socialists > became more significant than de liberal (conservative in Belgium), we can > find the situation now that the lower qualified schools are ruled by the > socialists and those who give an education at a higher level still by the > con,servatives. > In the fifties I was a victim of the catholic schools, as I told you already > somwhere else. But allthough retired I still follow the situation informed > by my theatre-students. > Some of them, being atheists, changed from the catholic schools to the > conservative ones. The situation now there is even more military organized > than in the catholics. So, real schools, where you can get a free education > instead of military training, a bit like the training of dogs, still don't > exist here. > The result is that most of the children, still obliged to go to school till > the age of 18, are hanging in the streets, with all the results we can > imagine. How can the children be interested, when the mostly elder teachers > are not. > The only thing that came on television was Hans Van Temssche having bad > points in school, buying a riffle, shooting two people in the street and > making a third person disabled for the remainder of her life. The situation > in our rotting schools was not even at the trial. > Love and peace from the old hippie. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
