Schools and Universities program

[Comrade Bassam]

Dear Comrades,

Since 1988 until 2005, we needed every single citizen, in any field, in any institution, to invest all his power and focus it on one single slogan, which is:
"Freedom, Sovereigny, Independance".

Students were of course the major players in this 17-years campaign and we succeeded in imposing an electoral program in all universities, only focused on one single political primary issue which is the "message" to the Lebanese society and the decision making countries and the Lebanese government and the Syrian government.

After April 30th, and after March 14th, we are now introduced to a new phase in Lebanese life and every single sector should go back to their normal positions...especially including the students.

How do you percieve the students' program and how do you see that FPM should be directing its efforts in the issues that concern students and how do you percieve the students role in the new era we are living ?

[lebgeneral]

well exactly like FPM created a program for Lebanon, after its liberation, well,
the student section should create a program for every single university.
And the student representative should commit to this program..

The program would be different from a university to another..

in one, it would be a program to reform the student election law, in another to buy a photocopy etc etc..

[Comrade Bassam]

This thread had been opened since more than a year...

Now we can modify the context... Regardless of the political atmosphere which we are subject to,

This year, FPM managed to reach lot of seats in lots of universities, absolute majorities in many faculties...

But globally, and the question is especially addressed to members who are students, what is it that we can still potentially do but we're not doing?

And also, the question goes to FPMers, what do you propose to FPM youth to work and stress on for this current academic year?

[jiugiusti]

Our educational system is good and better than many western ones; it produces excellent engineers, doctors, architect, business people, etc... but it produces individualist (not selfish which is completely different) people as well; it does not produce thinkers but performers.

It produces very good people in math, pshysics, but not too many logical people.
We learn math, philosophy, etc.. while we do not learn the use of math and philosophy in our practical life.

A small example:
All of us (I think) studied 'les fables' de la fontaine in school. We memorized it, recited, got good and bad grades.. but what was the teacher purpose (or the one who put it in the programme) in teaching it aim? what did we think at that time about it...? I, myself, read it again and again long time after I finised highschool/university and I found it not just fascinating but 'a school of life/humans' while at school it was a burden.

The point is that most of our programmes do not build interests/ideas in our minds.. but put info. Most of us want to be a doctor, lawyer, architect, etc.. because we are more shaped by the society and the type (not content) of what we study in schools.