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Education and corruption published in issue 4041 page 1 at 2007-10-16 Under the pressure of the ever more shocking "arrangements," the government ones included, corruption has become today synonymous with abject bribing, with the ordinary theft, accepted not only by the "receiver," but also by the "donor." When the rulers themselves, in exchange for "arrangements" that defy not only the law, but also their daily working hours, receive envelopes with money, sausages and barrels with plum brandy, who else can think to the profound and enduring implications of these skidding both shocking and blinding for the everyday observer? Thus, the profound meaning of the Latin word (corruptio, nis), of deviation from duty, of harm first of all moral, manages ever harder to break through the mercantile ordinary mentality and warn it over the major imminent dangers. That is why, under the pressure of the serious skidding at the top of the social pyramid, these dangers have burst out in the depth and undermine the whole system. This is exactly what happens now in the sector of education, because of corruption first of all as a deviation from the natural state of things, and thus from the elementary duty. The examples in this respect abound. Although the budgetary funds have never been sufficient for education, they have steadily increased, up to six per cent of GDP, as stipulated by the 2008 draft budget. But the problems of education have also steadily increased, regardless of these growths. Why? Not so much because of the lack of funds, but further to defying the internal connections, the mutual determinations, the complementariness specific for this system. Since the children homes and the kindergartens from Romania were simply destroyed through restitution, frequently "under the table," of the available public spaces, the substantial "presents" with which the parents come to the door of these remaining institutions in order to register their children in the pre-school education appear as substantial. Since the school in the rural environment suffers terribly from the most unimaginable material needs, and much of the teaching staff is unqualified, it stands to reason that the admission to high school of a rural gymnasium graduate is possible chiefly subject to "subtext arrangements." Since the substance of the teacher-pupil dialogue has been reduced and the admission to gymnasium or to the high school is subject to tests identical for all the schools, the disclosure "for money" of the examination subjects is predictable. But most such skidding, as a defiance not only of morals and good sense, but also of the reason of education, coexist in the sector of academic education. The reason of the setting up of the private higher education has targeted for instance the appearance of a complementary space; thus, instituting a competitive climate in terms of value, and not the appearance of an irreducible opposition. Unfortunately, it is in this way that a genuine, corrupt and corruptible, "war of the pie" was started. With the wish to attract more students, whose number feels the negative impact of the low birthrate in Romania, both the state and the private higher education have renounced successively many of the requirements of the selection based on value, not only upon admission, but also for the annual graduation. The essential concern has "evolved" from the quality of the training of the future specialist, to the conservation of a bigger number of students, able to support the respective academic edifice, reluctant to receiving many of the modern values and becoming in this way ever more oppressive and less efficient. In this climate which has deviated from the duty, thus corrupt and corruptible, the ever more frequent practice to obtain the license based on other people's papers, simply purchased on Internet, appears easy to explain. The practice of passing some yearly exams subject to the envelope containing hard currency sums, requested by some examiners before checking the knowledge of the respective students, seems possible. The system of the "distance education," which overbids formalism, superficiality and even the substitution of the respective student whose virtual personality is reduced to an abstract and inconclusive number, appears as favourite. Considering this entire climate, corrupt and corruptible chiefly because of its internal contradictions, how could we wonder that even the places assigned in the students' hostels are illicitly put up for sale, on Internet included? Or that even the scholarships for study abroad are frequently assigned in the absence of the coordination by the Romanian state, in the absence of a contest, of the requirements in terms of value, but in exchange, subject to occult political considerations? by Mihai Iordanescu <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (C) 2000-2005 Nine o'Clock ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." (Carlo Goldoni) "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix) Aboneaza-te la <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ngo_list> ngo_list: o alternativa moderata (un pic) la [ngolist] Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email?
