At 06:24 AM 04/15/2002 -0400, Chris Doss wrote:
>My experience backs up what you're saying. When I was in Romania in the
>sixties, my parents told me that I had to get straight A's (10s) if I
>wanted to go to the university. In other words, my performance would need
>to be nearly perfect in order to overcome the negative marks against
>me
However, when I visited Romania back in 1990, I talked to college students about the education system and they told me the privileged classes solved this formal problem by bribing profs for grades. Since pay for teachers was so lousy, the system had degenerated into a complete pay-for-grade system where students were graded essentially on how much their parents could pay. Like many things, Romania had the most toxic results of deformities of "real existing socialism."
-- Nathan Newman