Chavez Won’t Leave Any Child Behind

Posted on September 17th, 2007 in Development, Education by Kyle

From the 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.

How do you say “Lysenkoism” in Spanish?

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  1. Wayne said,

    on September 17th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    Nationalized education isn’t such a bad thing! Lots of famous people have endorsed the idea as a vehicle for social change.

    “When an opponent declares,
    ‘I will not come over to your side.’
    I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…
    What are you? You will pass on.
    Your descendants, however,
    now stand in the new camp.
    In a short time they will know nothing
    else but this new community.’”

    ~ Adolf Hitler

  2. Will said,

    on September 18th, 2007 at 5:35 am

    Wow, reductio ad hitlerium. That was fast.

  3. Wayne said,

    on September 18th, 2007 at 8:10 am

    Agreed, comparisons to Hitler are overdone. I know that it’s a logical fallacy to say that because Hitler supported something, it’s automatically wrong.

    I still think it’s a great quote. Should I not have put it up just because Hitler said it?

  4. D. Greene said,

    on September 18th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    To continue the theme, who will be Chavez’ Claus von Stauffenberg?

  5. Derek said,

    on September 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am

    I was reading the Claremont Review of Books recently, and I ran across a neat quotation by Jonathan Chait.

    Conservatives venerate the free market and see smaller government as an end in itself. Liberals do not venerate government in the same way, and we do not see larger government as an end in and of itself. For us, everything works on a case-by-case basis. Should government provide everybody’s education? Yes. Should government manufacture everybody’s blue jeans? No. And so on.

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