Comments on: Greece http://www.logophile.org/blog/2008/12/09/greece/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2008/12/09/greece/comment-page-1/#comment-6038 tikitu Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:23:01 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=531#comment-6038 <p>It's a fine rant, this Rowan chap has his head screwed on straight.</p> <p>I think I have to write something in response, the draft of this comment is already a post or so long.</p> It’s a fine rant, this Rowan chap has his head screwed on straight.

I think I have to write something in response, the draft of this comment is already a post or so long.

]]> By: Όλγα http://www.logophile.org/blog/2008/12/09/greece/comment-page-1/#comment-6037 Όλγα Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:24 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=531#comment-6037 <p>That was indeed very good Kimberley :-) Thanks for pointing it out. I am Greek, and very sad with all that's happening. If you (and Rowan) had spent a couple of years in a Greek school, you would understand more about why this all is happening. That's why we fight for good education, but the government never cares to offer better education (maybe on purpose?). Years and years now we fight for better education, we ask for money to build (better) schools, we ask for jobs, we ask for the simplest things you can imagine! But we don't get them. Money always ends up in the pockets of a few people, usually those of the government, the church, and some few rich people. And now you see the result. Uneducated people that have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Uneducated (or better, educated in Greece) people which have had enough. It is sad. But true.</p> That was indeed very good Kimberley :-) Thanks for pointing it out. I am Greek, and very sad with all that’s happening. If you (and Rowan) had spent a couple of years in a Greek school, you would understand more about why this all is happening. That’s why we fight for good education, but the government never cares to offer better education (maybe on purpose?). Years and years now we fight for better education, we ask for money to build (better) schools, we ask for jobs, we ask for the simplest things you can imagine! But we don’t get them. Money always ends up in the pockets of a few people, usually those of the government, the church, and some few rich people. And now you see the result. Uneducated people that have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Uneducated (or better, educated in Greece) people which have had enough. It is sad. But true.

]]> By: Kimberley http://www.logophile.org/blog/2008/12/09/greece/comment-page-1/#comment-6035 Kimberley Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:02:03 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=531#comment-6035 <p>A friend of mine who is living in Athens wrote a cool-headed rant about this: http://www.rowanthorpe.com/writing/miscellaneous/rant_about_athens_riots/</p> A friend of mine who is living in Athens wrote a cool-headed rant about this: http://www.rowanthorpe.com/writing/miscellaneous/rant_about_athens_riots/

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