Post by cjm on Aug 21, 2015 6:19:50 GMT
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Firebrand academic Professor Jonathan Jansen says it is pointless introducing Mandarin in South African schools, when they cannot teach local languages.
The vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State pulled no punches during a speech in Durban on Wednesday, saying the state’s declared intention to offer Mandarin at South African schools was nothing more than “political gat kruiping” (brown nosing).
Jansen told the assembled academics that they were “training barbarians who are racist and sexist”.
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While falling short of calling for a complete overhaul of the education system, Jansen said educationists had allowed “failure to become the new norm”.
Known for his bluntness and dislike of political correctness, he said one university in the province “continued to dish out a type of Bantu education”.
“You have all become complacent with this rubbish we call education. You have become institutionalised by keeping a dysfunctional system afloat.”
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The vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State pulled no punches during a speech in Durban on Wednesday, saying the state’s declared intention to offer Mandarin at South African schools was nothing more than “political gat kruiping” (brown nosing).
Jansen told the assembled academics that they were “training barbarians who are racist and sexist”.
...
While falling short of calling for a complete overhaul of the education system, Jansen said educationists had allowed “failure to become the new norm”.
Known for his bluntness and dislike of political correctness, he said one university in the province “continued to dish out a type of Bantu education”.
“You have all become complacent with this rubbish we call education. You have become institutionalised by keeping a dysfunctional system afloat.”
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