Actually, in the late 80's, 1$ ~ 14 LEI. The work of students on the fields is called VOLUNTARY WORK. Remember the Caleidoscop Pioneresc!
are you trying to troll?
this was as voluntary as any labour camp in any dictatorship. the only diffrence was i could leave in the evening and i wouldn't get shot if i didn't do my quota.
1 DM was about 4,50 lei or so and 1$ was roughly 2 german marks. since in '89 i went to trip to the soviet union and was allowed to change for 56 rubles at a course of 1 to 9, if i remember well and because the dollar wasn't allowed to be worth more than a ruble, i remember it being around 8 lei or so. but that's of secondary importance.
Egoism is not a virtue. We all want to learn algebra and become physicians or doctors, but you must understand that some people must also work on the fields, if you don't want to die on your books...
oh yeah. some people are born leaders while others should clean the dirt. last time we had such one he ended up on the wrong side of a barrel. and i cheer that.
did you actually read any of what i wrote? all the above were PRE 1989 and were COMPULSORY. any wrong word and my father would go to jail as addition to the 5 years prison camp in our beloved socailist brotherland , the soviet union, he had to do.
it's nobodys bloody business to regulate if the entire population should become doctors or lawyers. if they can, go ahead. the market will take care of the surplus. no illiterate offsprings of the "worker and peasants" academy, the stefan gheorghiu was, are needed or wanted to mess with this.
So 2 months of work on the fields means END OF THE WORLD? Yes, everybody must respect hard work, even the smoothest intellectual. We must understand that the "drunken" peasant was doing only this in his life, hard work. And historically, he was always the poorest. That's we should respect him...
this is laughable. nobody on this planet has the right to "teach" anyone what respect for hard work means, especially not the protegees and offsprings of a person with such ridicoulous intellectual abilities that ceausescu was, and especially not in a compulsory way.
while it is true that the peasants got the worst part of socialsim, i see no reason why it's my job to do their daily work while they booze off themselves. this ain't help.
When you talk about private class, you talk of the post-1989 régime. That kind of thing is normal when the actual government drinks the funds necessary for education.
i'm talking about the PRE 1989 regime. and while we are at funds, there wern't enough books available in the 80ies for class use, so you had to buy them from a bookstore (funny that you could find some there).
About 50-80% of the average students in an univeristy class of French in Quebec have no idea of French gramatics. Most of them must be put in special classes to learn how to write and spell correctly. That's because in secondary school, they learn nothing.
no, that's because they don't read during secondary school, they play pokemon games and watch idiotic TV shows. but that's their parents fault. school is a place where you should be made aware of something which should be repeated and understood after class at home (or in the library). school ain't a place where you dump your children in the morning, collect them in the afteroon and expect them to become smart after 12 years, just because after all, you're paying taxes to fund the system.
And education in the West is done more seriously? My mother is teacher here and tell her how are the classes in every school of Quebec... See how students are addressing to teachers!
depends where. i certainly don't like what i see, but the current state i'm blaming on the '68s. it wasn't allways this way. and finnland for example is still doing a good job on this regard in an international comparision.
So none of them became professional? Where did they study? At Romanian university, no? And they studied obsolete stuff and now most of them are PROFESSIONALS in CANADA, building the Western world??? Very strange!
which part wasn't understandable?
those people became outstanding professionals because they put in a great amount of additional work to overcome the brakes of the educational system (teachers too old or which don't care, bad equipment etc. it's easier however, to close the gap if you're in the computer industry). it's called self study, something which you should be well aware of.
as far as building the "western world", the remark is ridiculous. and if you find self-study strange i hope you have the most outstanding teachers in quebec, because without self study you will badly need them to learn algebra or to become one of those physicians or doctors.
a respected country in 1989
respected???? by whom? by those upper 10 000, all absolvents of the national academy of spies with a PhD degree in torture and thievery?
now i'm convinced you're trolling.
there was a chance in 1990 to be respected. and they blew it.
15% of Microsoft's staff is Romanian!!! All formed under "brutal communism"!
i'd question the 15% but i'm sure the number is large. and none of this people owe the romanian educational system a rusty nickel. also they weren't formed by that pre1989 "performant" system. if you have any relation to the IT industry, you know that it ain't based on a ZX80 which was pretty much the only cpu available pre1989 in RO(apart from some soviet stuff nobody uses), and at a black market price of 12 000 lei certainly not available to all those who form the 15% you claim to be working for M$. we are offtopic allready and it would get us more offtopic to discuss the quality of M$ products unleashed unto us, i'll ask you: do you have any relation with a romanian IT company? did you ever work for one? i did.
And these two powerful companies DID NOT chose American, French, Canadian or Mexican engineers! NO! Theu chosed Romanians, Poles, Serbs, Chinese and Viets! Why? Because they are performant!
as much i wish it was true: it ain't. not the fact that the romanians working there wouldn't be good engineers. i know too many of them to know that that ain't true. if companies hire someone they choose the cheaper one. and once you start there, if you arn't allready established in the country, you HAVE to go cheaper in order to secure a job, since you ain't on unemployment benefits, because you just arrived. newcomers are allways cheaper at first until they establish themselves. then the feeling of being underpaid kicks in and they go off for a better paid job. that's how it works. there were countless recruitment companies in the us which brought H1Bs to the US during the dot bomb boom.
So stop blaming these who built a country
build? throughoughly destroyed it, and took the pride from all the people they could.