El presidente, usted es mi presidente!

What a world we would live in if Venezuela's great leader Hugo Chavez could run for president in the U.S.? Instead of a barely funded, anti-people program like No Dollar Left Behind, we could have the Bolivarian model:

Chavez affirmed that his government considers education to be a "vital aspect" of the Bolivarian political program and is committed to improving the education system’s quality and transforming its traditional paradigm through the construction of "Simoncitos," as the Bolivarian preschools are known, as well as Bolivarian schools, high schools, universities and technical schools.

Chavez blamed the capitalist and imperialist media campaigns for filling the people with poison, teaching them to overvalue money and leading them to believe that the poor "are worthless." In order to change these parameters, the Venezuelan President asserted, values such as unity, brotherhood and solidarity, must be placed above competition and individualism. "We are all a team, going along eliminating little by little the values or the anti-values that capitalism has planted in us from childhood"

...According to [head of education] Isturiz, the Bolivarian high schools are focused on transforming adolescents from being individualistic to being socially aware; from being competitive to cooperative; and from being consumers to being creative...

...After affirming that the transformation of the educational system was not only "Isturiz's responsibility, not only the responsibility of the government, but also of everyone, of the citizens," Chavez asked Isturiz to design evaluation committees composed of community members to discuss progress and projects. "The very own students, along with their professors, can form their cooperatives to operate the resources and develop their planes," he affirmed.

Posted by John Ciccilini to John Ciccilini at May 15, 2005 01:37 PM

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