Changes in Educational System? Not(only that)!

Checking all the growing process' countries, we notice that they're not performing very well to succeed in growth. But some of these countries have grown a lot and are almost getting the tittle of a "Developed Country". For instance: South Korea, China, Chile, etc.

Of course, there's not a general way to grow like that, but , at least, there's something in common in these countries: all of them put a lot of money in education.

I don't think we must change things in the educational system. What makes it degraded is the lack of investments. On this subject, we're freshman. If we have a great education in a country, we grow on account of having more intelligent, active people, searching for self-growth, helping in technology growth and influencing on the country's economy.

In Brazil, we have a lot of schools, but we don't have people interested about learning. In Brazil, we have a lot of teachers, but we don't pay them enough, desmotivating the profession. In Brazil, we have great universities, but we have more people than they can receive. In Brazil, we have good teaching strategies, being at school for nine years, having the integral schools, etc, but they aren't put in action. These are some problems that have an easy solution: money.

If government holds the responsability of investing more in education, the problems above can be solved.

Succeeding on that, we may be walking to get a "Developed Country"!

Violence, violence....and violence again

Watching the Jornal Nacional (the most seen TV daily journal in the country) I got so bored that I didn’t want to watch it anymore. Reason? No, it wasn’t boring news, or worthless news, – instead of that, the news were much worthy – but because of the ten minutes (I beat) I only watched tragedies about the violence. Yes, it were 10 minutes watching news about lost-shots deaths, kidnappings, tragic deaths, etc.
We don’t deserve what media is showing, – I don’t wanna criticize its work because it’s doing legally – we deserve a country without tragedies, we don’t deserve to see or hear that innocent people a died for nothing! We can’t comply with this. Federal and State’s government need to perform together to make it over. I live in Rio Grande do Sul and, not showing myself, but the main focus of the government is the social security. This’s bringing many victories. The numbers have decreased significantly! Policy Corp is acting intensely, assuring our security.What we really need is ACTION! It doesn’t matter whether we use federal army or not. But we can’t agree that people die only because they’re studying or walking on the street.

National Indignation

I read about a movie just launched in Brazil – Tourists – and I got much indignant with our image seen in some places. The movie (photo), which talks about “Addicted american teenagers who came to Brazil to have fun and where the met the sensual savages”, but they get in a woof and they are killed and have their organs taken by the “savages”, shows an horrible image of our country. Don’t they think that it can prejudice our country? Or that it can be, and it’s, totally wrong in the reality?

Many say that it doesn’t matter, even because many other movies show other places in these situations. I disagree. The name of our country is much known all over the world, but the biggest part of the people doesn’t know how our country really is. So, when one watches sucn movie he creates a warped seen of our nation. This movie isn’t the only one who brings a bad image of us. Other programs warps everything, like the much knows cartoon The Simpsons, which shows a snake eating Bart, thieve attacking Lisa and Homer is kidnapped.

Proving that these programs can really change the nature of a country, north-americans generals told that they prefer to go to Iraq in the war than come to Brazil to insure their president in his travel to Brazil, that happened in the beginning of March.
This’s a problem that we must go against it, a problem that affects our government and mainly our people. We must be tough about this subject and impose limits, because everyone has to know that WE ARE NOT “SENSUAL SAVAGES”!

The Green Salon de Geneve

I’m very surprised and happy with the big importance given to environment’s maintaining projects. Having many researches and warnings about how our world will react to the climatic changes, which we are already condemned to – what’s in game now is their intensity - it’s normal that we are worried about this subject.

But what really surprised me was this year Salon de Geneve. This is one of the most famous car’s exposition in world and the last tendencies are show in it. In almost all years that it happened, what was show were expensive and wasting cars. However, this year, the car’s industries are betting in another way: the green cars. Even the Chinese industries have been investing in these cars.
These cars uses clean and renewable energies as fuel, not polluting the environment.
This tendency is very important and must be spread all over the world on account of we’ll know how to use the clean energies like the hydrogen, electricity (the car in the photo), etc.

Two sides of the Media

Nowadays media is one of the subjects most talked in debates and symposiums. It’s accused to impose its own opinion, not opening spaces to discussions and not motivating a critic thinking. Such accusation is so strong that midia has already been compared with many bad things.
I can’t tell you that I don’t think the same. O f course I do. In my opinion, media not only impose their opinion, but it manipulates all our thinking, using programs without cultural information. But I notice a good side of the midia too.
First of all, it’s the biggest source of news we have nowadays, affirming our daily updating. Second, and most important, is what I think we should enjoy in media. When it publishes the news, it shows its opinion and it’s with this opinion that we search new ones. In other words, we create our opinions based in what media shows to us, in the media’s opinion. Our opinion can go for media’s or against media’s.

The problem is that a lot of people always comply with what media imposes, not having an own opinion. We need to mix a lot of information and then create a real opinion. Otherwise, we always will be commanded by the “demoniac” media.