Thursday, January 18, 2007

What? (Grecian Style)

I can maybe understand rioting about serious injustice, I'm not saying I'd condone it, but I could understand how it happens.

But then you see things like this and you have to say WTF?

Greek riot police have clashed with angry students on the streets of the capital, Athens, during a protest over proposed education reforms.

Violence broke out during a march on parliament attended by some 3,000 people, mainly university students.

There were no reported injuries or arrests during the scuffles during which masked youths threw petrol bombs.

Students, backed by university and education unions, claim the reform would lower the quality of education.


Well, the proposed reform must have been something pretty heinous, right?

The demonstration is one of several taking place across Greece to protest against a proposed change to education policy, which would require a constitutional amendment.

The proposal would allow private universities to operate fully in Greece and for the degrees they award to be recognised by the state.


That's it?

So..... in Greece university profs are state bureaucrats, and they are worried that their cushy lifestyle might be impacted if private colleges prove they can deliver the same education without suckling at the teat of the state.

What shocks me is that they have convinced their students that this is a cause of injustice to them.

It does prove that the profs have done a good job reducing the critical thinking skills of Greek university students to that of a well trained attack dog. Maybe one day the students will wake up and realize they are little more than someone else's bitch.

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