Chavez Promises New Education Model to Combat Imperialist Values

[chlamor]

Chavez Promises New Venezuelan Education Model to Combat Imperialist Values

Monday, May 16, 2005

By: Sarah Wagner – Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela, May 16, 2005—During his weekly television program, Aló Presidente, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced yesterday the initiation of a new stage in Venezuelan education, based on “coexisting, knowing, and doing” and called upon the Venezuelan youth to reject "imperialistic anti-values" cultivated during previous governments and to "rescue the authentic Christian values, lost by the capitalist model."

Chávez 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.

Chávez 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…"

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According to Istúriz, 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. Additionally, the Bolivarian education system does not only teach traditionally subjects but also focuses on developing a sense of pride in the students for their own region and culture.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1621

[CottonBear]

1. Viva Chavez!

:)

[Kralizec]

4. ¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!

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[Systematic Chaos]

2. Seems to me we could use a bit of that style of thinking here too.

But that's okay. We have No Child Left Behind!

Is our children learning?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Isn't this interesting! Also, from the article:

According to María Eugenia Dávila, a student in a Bolivarian high school, "there is really a great difference between a Bolivarian high school and a "normal" Venezuelan high school…The Bolivarian high school gives you a big change. The community has been the representative in all of the high school, it has been the protagonist and they have helped us in all of the activities."

Carlos Ojeda, who is now sings in the choir, participates in theater and plays football in his Bolivarian high school, opportunities that "we never had the possibility to do before," concurred with Dávila, noting that "the community is there hand-in-hand with the Bolivarian high school."

They couldn't possibly do worse than the Republican model,not in a million Bush years (which seem far, far longer!).

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12. Bravo!

Creativeness is the key to happiness. Competitiveness is just the opposite. Society is unbalanced when the people seek mind altering substance to find that happiness that is only temporary.

Think about it. Chavez has and is on the right tract.

[Charlie Brown]

5. This man is one of my heroes n/t

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[AP]

7. In the US, Republicans refused to fund schools before the 50's.

They were afraid that an educated population would mean a middle class that companies which make money off of cheap labor couldn't exploit.

Only because of the cold war -- when RW'ers realized that Phillips Andover and Choate Rosemary Hall weren't going to produce enough math and physics majors to invent that the things we needed to protect us from the Red Menace -- did RW'ers decide public education was a good thing.

(And now that we won the cold war, the Republicans are more than willing to dismantle it.)

[burrowowl]

8. He is going to get excommunicated

for preaching Liberation Theology.:evilgrin:

[ngGale]

9. "He is going to get excommunicated"

for preaching Liberation Theology.

Thanks for that laugh, I needed it.

Isn't it nice to see other parts of the world learning from our dire existence. We aren't spreading democracy, we are spreading the reality that they don't want to end up like us.:rofl:

[cprise]

11. We do so spread democracy

But thinly, so as not to compete with the flavor of a yummy despotic center.

Seriously, it is very nice indeed to see developing nations striving for their self-determination through cooperation.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Here's a good Letter to the Editor:

U.S. meddling in Venezuela

May 17, 2005

Venezuela's democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez, survived a United States backed right-wing coup in 2002. Then his opponents, again subsidized by American money, launched a recall election which he won with a solid 59 percent.

But the Bush administration simply can't allow a Latin American president to get away with using his country's oil wealth to benefit poor and working people instead of the corrupt Venezuelan oligarchy and American corporations.

Recently Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice visited several South American countries, trying to get their leaders to take a stand against Chavez, but one after another they declined to fall into line. Given the fact that the American military is bogged down in Iraq, all the Bush administration can do is to spend more millions to fund the Venezuelan right wing opposition and to have the CIA continue its covert operations.

Secretary Rice has been trying out a new line of propaganda: although Chavez was democratically elected, he is not "governing democratically." Translated, this simply means that he is governing in the interest of the common people of Venezuela rather than following "advice" from Washington. This is, of course, unacceptable to the Bush administration

Peter Lackowski

Underhill

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/NEWS/505170344/1022

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Isn't it great to see _Bush isn't fooling everyone?

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13. junior is fooling no ONE. Not even himself!

[dingaling]

14. what is the right word

for something like this. "Indoctrination".

[chlamor]

15. Sing your song hugo

[burrowowl]

16. Yeah Liberation Theology!

Where are are Liberation Christians?
I seem to remember a parabol about a Roman soldier whose daughter Jesus healed and the Roman said Thanks but I'm not a believer and Jesus said it's alright go on your way ...