I´ve been recently thinking about how hard it is for younger people in my country to have access to a decent education. For years we have suffered the consequences of having been taken over by dictators and heartless politicians. We live in a society where ignorance is essential for this kind of people to govern a country, or better said misgovern it.
Conversely, educated people would not accept to be under the control of immoral governors. Back to what I was saying about Peru, I´d like to give you guys just one example of how hopeless is the path to success for students who belong to the middle class or below. In Lima, the capital and financial centre of this country, there are only two main libraries not fully equipped. For instance, if a middle school student wants to get a copy of a famous English fable, such as ¨The hare and the tortoise¨, they´re darned.
This is mainly because the only two aforementioned libraries don´t have any book written in a foreign language whatsoever. This not only discourages young promises, but also may allow them choose the wrong path. Furthermore, I´d like to add the fact that public schools here don´t have English as a compulsory subject. Even if they do, it´s as if they didn´t. That´s why several language centres were created to ¨teach¨ English to future generations.
However, this sparked off the following. These institutions wanted profit with education more than anything else. So that, they hired either Americans or Peruvians with a high level of English. The only thing they had to do to get hired was to get a certificate after finishing a 6-month program, and passing an International English test. They still do the same thing until this day. Therefore, ESL students don´t seem to be in such good hands, do they?.
Conversely, educated people would not accept to be under the control of immoral governors. Back to what I was saying about Peru, I´d like to give you guys just one example of how hopeless is the path to success for students who belong to the middle class or below. In Lima, the capital and financial centre of this country, there are only two main libraries not fully equipped. For instance, if a middle school student wants to get a copy of a famous English fable, such as ¨The hare and the tortoise¨, they´re darned.
This is mainly because the only two aforementioned libraries don´t have any book written in a foreign language whatsoever. This not only discourages young promises, but also may allow them choose the wrong path. Furthermore, I´d like to add the fact that public schools here don´t have English as a compulsory subject. Even if they do, it´s as if they didn´t. That´s why several language centres were created to ¨teach¨ English to future generations.
However, this sparked off the following. These institutions wanted profit with education more than anything else. So that, they hired either Americans or Peruvians with a high level of English. The only thing they had to do to get hired was to get a certificate after finishing a 6-month program, and passing an International English test. They still do the same thing until this day. Therefore, ESL students don´t seem to be in such good hands, do they?.
Anyhow, to sum up I´d like to say that we have to keep into consideration that teaching is an art. That´s why, people who are not qualified to practice this art should not be able to do it.
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