Tag: education

Lula’s Missed Chance of Cutting Illiteracy in Half in Brazil

In the same month it was confronting its worse political and ethical crisis, the ...

Brazil Needs to Learn to Set Goals and Apologize

At the beginning of 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested ...

Why India Is Decades Ahead of Brazil

Besides religiosity, two things distinguish man from the other animals: walking on two legs ...

Brazil Losing Another Race, This Time to Mexico

In the 1970s and 1980s few listened to those asserting that, due to their ...

Brazil Is Falling Behind, But We Keep Talking About Our Progress

The end of the Second World War gave rise to the creation of several ...

Only Federalization Can Save Brazil’s Schools

Brazil has a public university system and technical schools that meet international standards and ...

A Danger in Brazil: Splitting into Two Races

Hidden behind accounts in the press and the government’s Diário Oficial, the real Brazil ...