There are well supported educational programs in most european countries. A lot of these countries also have left-wing governments. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
Womble, how would you call the German Government - left-wing? If so <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />, our education system is going down rapidly. German schools are in the lower middle-field of the PISA studies - they've been cut down on money for several years now: Teachers too old, a totally old-fashioned civil-servant-system, closing school libraries, forcing parents to buy additional school lecture for their children. Universities are too old and technically not up-to-date, over-crowded and here again a totally oldfashioned stupid civil-servant-system. We have a rather high population of foreigners, but special classes for teaching these kids a proper German were cut down, too. NO teachers in teaching them their mother tongue, so they remain wanderers between the cultures.
Students and pupils in Germany are the oldest to go out to life, the education system is really a disgrace. If I think of it, I get really angry. I know, Germany has a lot of economic problems dealing with Reunion and trade problems, unemployment rate is very high. But to cut down education is to cut down future.
I don't know if I can call this capitalism, the right and left wing have been doing a real good job in depriving kids of their future.
If you want to look where the good education is: Scandinavia.
Kiya
