It will always be a conflict between private incentives and public virtues, but sometimes the world development just makes traditional solutions ridiculous. I wrote an email to the Department of research and education one day and asked if they had any plans for funding a free internet course in Norwegian language with a lot of language games, video-cast, podcast and so on, free available for everyone. They had no such plans. This is a bad policy. There must be a lot of youths, women, men and children out there that of many reasons cant go to the Norwegian courses, but have the possibility to study home, especially if it was free. This could work well for integration. I bought a good computer for a while ago for 900 kroner, and pays little more than 200 kroner for broadband. With this, plus www.ubuntu.com software that is 100 percent free, I am able to read, download and learn a lot more than was possible for even an extremely rich person for just a few years ago. And if the Norwegian state could fund a good site for learning the language, then it would be no problem for new Norwegians to learn the language.
In the last years it has been a public focus on the math education too, and why not the national library fund and administrate basic courses in math?
"Math hasn't changed since Isaac Newton," declares Scott McNealy. So why, he asks, is California paying some $400 million annually to "update" grade-school textbooks?
The private market need competition from the state, and the state has to act in business-like manner sometimes, just like Statoil. That benefit the owners (that is the citizens). Just compare the smart way the Norwegian oil industry is organized compared to the Danish one. Because of this, the Norwegian oil companies has expanded to engineering service operating all over the world.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment