Education should not be part of a political battle, say Venezuelan bishops


	Education should not be part of a political battle, say Venezuelan bishops

Efrain Alvarado

5-1-2008 10:20 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9826fbd1-0877-4087-87da-90b5615aaf63/37AC343E-B13E-409C-A0E1-787E9BF46B83/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12506" href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12506" style="font-size: 11px;">www.catholicnewsagency.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12506"><P><SPAN class="noticia_byline">Caracas, Apr 30, 2008 / 06:03 pm (<A  href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com">CNA</A>)</SPAN>.- The Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference said this week that education should not be made a political issue, because it is the right of all Venezuelans to receive quality, values-based education.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12506"><P>“The ‘battle,’ as some have called it, over education is not a question of political wins or losses, because values and rights are not subject to the polling booth,” the bishops said in a statement read by the president of the Committee on Education, Bishop Jose Angel Divasson.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12506"><P>The bishops criticized the “exaggerated militarism, the biased vision of history” that some want to impose on the new school curriculum.  They called for an “extensive national dialogue” about the theoretical, pedagogical and philosophical foundations that should be understood in light of the constitution and not interpreted unilaterally.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37AC343E-B13E-409C-A0E1-787E9BF46B83/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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