|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Todd Archer
|| Thanks for the info, Hakki. It was interesting enough, but I'm
|| afraid it
|| didn't answer my question about the cost of a university
|| education. If that
|| was in the links, they didn't work.
Free education and health care is a rule with all statist and socialist systems, though quality may vary. I don't see anything surprising there. Tuition fees are a recent phenomenon in Turkey (which started to privatize/globalize in 1983) and every year there are student demos against them. The fees go up and the quality of education keeps plummeting regardless, even in the private U's (where fees rival those in the US). College education is mostly free in the EU too.
The links work, just tried em.
||
|| Hakki said:
||
|| >As I wrote earlier, Kemal Ataturk, republican Turkey's secular
|| >founder,
|| >took
|| >a vivid interest in Afghanistan even while the Turkish war of
|| >liberation
|| >was
|| >in progress
||
|| Funny you should mention this: while my friend was telling me
|| about the free
|| education, another member of our group, a young woman from
|| Iraq, got into
|| the conversation and solemnly affirmed everything he said about
|| it. Does
|| everyone in the region take a vivid interest in Afghanistan?
||
|| Todd
||
%70 female enrollment in 1990 is something to be vividly interested in even in the US. For a moslem woman, it's like a dream. It's what Ataturk hoped would happen.
Hakki