CARACAS,Venezuela-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.}}}Can you imagine....????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.Just what the new curriculum will include and how it will be applied to all Venezuelan schools and universities remains ""unclear""."We want to create our own ideology collectively—creative, diverse," the president said, adding that it would help develop values of "cooperation and solidarity."All schools will be bound to {{"subordinate themselves to the constitution"}}}which he has already rewritten by the way... and comply with the """new Bolivarian educational system,"""" he said, referring to his socialist movement named after South American independence hero Simon Bolivar.Anticipating criticism, Chavez said the state's role in regulating education is internationally accepted and that it wouldn't be possible for a school administrator to insist on autonomy in countries like Germany or the US.Chavez also noted that previous Venezuelan educational systems carried their own ideology. Leafing through old grade school textbooks from the 1970s, he pointed out how they referred to Venezuela's "discovery" by Europeans."They taught us to admire Christopher Colombus and Superman," Chavez said, adding that education based on capitalist ideology had destroyed "the values of children."http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RNBIPO0&show_article=1&catnum=0
PS:Here this clown is rewritting history in venezuela in blood....I still wonder who in the world voted for him....or did he "really" win....????Venezuelan friends tell me hanging their heads and sobbing of the living hell ther families are going thru back home in Caracas....
The socialist ideology that this looney toones want to "indoctrinate"everybody with is in reality comunism....He can care less for the people...He is a very ignorant man himself as you can find out by the things he says and does....Denying pure history and Columbus....give me a brake.....What is next....?saying that Marx and the Che Guevara discovered Venezuela,....!!!!hahahahaha
The guy also hates christianism...My heart goes out to all my brothers and sisters in the Lord and to all that practice a religion of some sort....They'll have to brace themselves for true PERSECUTION....
Let's keep Venezuela and its people,especially children,elderly,the poor,the sick the indians in our prayers....
Chavez is turning Venezuela into a dictatorship.....
As in the days of Noah....

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