On the one hand the Minister of Education creates a national dialogue committee for education and the next day he announces changes, ideas and hasty measures to, apparently, solve pressing problems. Once again education is turned into a guinea pig in the hands of apprentice magicians who believe they can make history by messing up the education system.
For the first time a legislative bill was approved with a huge consensus and it is already being dismantled before it could implemented. This government will complete the deconstruction and take us back a few steps. So while everyone claims that education is the greatest investment for the country’s future, that a consensus is needed for any necessary changes, in practice they do the exact opposite.
It is as if they will discover gun powder, as if they cannot learn from systems deemed successful and implemented in other countries, yet they obsesses about a so-called particularity that does not allow us to see what is going on around us. The whole of education, from primary schools to universities, is collapsing from a lack of funding, while ministers, consultants and their entourage believe that they can solve the problems by shuffling the deck.
Unfortunately since the foundation of Hellenic State, education has been treated as a field of partisan and ideological conflict. As a result, the governments come and go and education becomes a victim of their shortsighted policies. When other countries are making strides, we are squabbling over who will control university elections. As a result we miss one opportunity after the other because we cannot agree on the obvious matters…
TO VIMA
