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We Must Stop the Brazilian Lie that Access to School Equals Success PDF Print E-mail
2007 - June 2007
Written by Cristovam Buarque   
Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:52

São Paulo University's Law School For years it has been said that Brazil took a great educational step forward when it placed 95% of its children in school. But no one mentions the very small increase we made in the percentage of high school graduates; no one claims that we are improving the quality of the education of these few students who do finish secondary school. The discussion is concentrated upon access; what is forgotten is success.

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Dead right..... Access is not Success !!!!!
written by ch.c., June 22, 2007
And acess doesnt mean quality either.
Lets face it, Hodja newspaper, owned by Globo TV, have done some students tests and comparisons with 32 other countries.

BRAZIL CAME UP......LAST !!!!!! Yesssssss....at the queue of the queue !

Sorry guys...this ranking has been done by YOURSELVES !!!!!!
Of course....had these tests been done by your government, they would have ranked Brazil at or near the top. GUESS WHY !!!!!!!
Of course....had these tests been done by foreigners, you would have simply said they are ranting !!!!


NOOOOOOO......once more : the testS and the rankings were done.....BY IMPARTIAL BRAZILIANS !!!!!!!


laugh.....laugh.....laugh !!!!!!!
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written by macunaima, June 24, 2007
Hodja newspaper?

Never heard of it.
To:Macunaima
written by João da Silva, June 27, 2007
Hodja newspaper?

Never heard of it.


Nor have I.May be the good senator and ch.c are going to start a new Newspaper with this fancy name. If they do, I would love to be one of the columnists (paid of course).
Curiosity
written by Gty, June 27, 2007
Hey ch.c...whats up with you man. Why so much animsoity towards Brazil? I visit the site because I have a Brazilian wife, some business interests and many friends there, some of the articles and posting are pretty entertaining. I enjoy especially those postings that defend Brazil's current state and trash the US, comparing the two, I get a good chuckle.

But your banter is always hateful and full of venom, what happened to you, Carioca break you heart? Ladroes get you in Copacabana? Something happened...clue us all in.
Racism is the lowest form of ignorance.
written by Ryan-NYC, June 29, 2007
in reply to "Cutioosity".

I have addressed his racist and hateful ranting before, and specially despised a few self-hating Brazilians who actually applaud his moronic postings. CH.C is very consistent in his bashing of Brazil and Brazilians. I can't help but wonder why he wastes his time here to insult Brazil and Brazilians in every single posting he decides to offer his ignorant take.

My conclusion is similar to yours; someone that unhappy and full of hate must have some sort of trauma to fuel tha much prejudice against an specific group of people, nation and culture. One needs no graduate degree in psichology to arrive at that conclusion either, as it seems pretty obvious, A ceral box, text book, superficial child psicology trainning will siffice to rander a diagnosis of his condition. He suffers from a cronic affliction of "Brazilian bug up his ass". Aparentlly there's no known cure o treatment for it as of yet.


Curiosity, that is!
written by Ryan-NYC, June 29, 2007
Curiosity, that is!
Spin doctors and half truths.
written by Ryan-NYC, June 29, 2007
I seriously doubt that any sane and reasonably intelligent Brazilian, or human for that matter, assumes that access to education equals success. It make increase the chances of a better paying job or career and by proxy a better quality of life. This should not be confused with a "guarantee" of it. Many factors can and ultimetlly contribute to the outcome of an education and higher level of expertise on any given field of activity.

The promisse or prospect of persuing "happines" or "success"-personal or economic- (by whatever standards you may chose to measure either) is not the same as the guarantee of success or happines, but only the chance of "persuing" it.

Considering the shift on the nature of education from actually educating to trainning people for the workforce and supply industry with qualified professionals ( in great numbers to curb wages and increase competition for the same jobs) education has lost tremendously in its quality. In a modern world, pratical skill overshadows a true and universal education.

In an ever increasing globalized market place, what matters is proficiency as the means to attain a competitive edge, not education. India is a great example of it.Limited to a class of people and within a caste system, but a great exemple nontheless.

It would also be propostorous to compare (which seem to be a cronic malidy here) Brazil (a developing country) with the rich DEVELOPED nations of the first, industrialized world. It's pointless to do it.

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