Sep 17 2007
Chavez gives a preview of education under Hillary…
Venezuala’s Chavez Warns Private Schools
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.
“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants,” said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes. All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government’s new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, with the state taking responsibility for the education of their children, Chavez said.
A new curriculum will be ready by the end of this school year, and new textbooks are being developed to help educate “the new citizen,” said Chavez’s brother and education minister Adan Chavez, who joined him a televised ceremony at the opening of a public school in the eastern town of El Tigre.
The president’s opponents accuse him of aiming to indoctrinate young Venezuelans with socialist ideology. But the education minister said the aim is to develop “critical thinking,” not to impose a single way of thought.
Hillary even has a brother she can give the post of Education Minister once she renames the office of the Secretary Of Education. Of course he will need some time off near the end of her presidency to focus on pardon brokering. I wonder if Norman Hsu will be her choice Treasury Secretary.
Does Venezuala have a Public Service Academy or is Hillary planning to take socialist indoctrination to new levels?
