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services chronicle book Published this article page no Mira Markovic is an Honorary Academic of the
Russian Academy of Science. It cost a lot of money to obtain this title and the
Serb multibillionnaire Karic was only too glad to cough it up. Whatever else
you say about Balkan cronies they rarely bite the hand that feeds them unless
and until it is expedient to do so. And whatever else you say about Russia it
adapted remarkably to capitalism. Everything has a price and a market. Israel
had to learn this fact the hard way when Russian practicalnurselevel medical
doctors and constructionworkerlevel civil engineers flooded its shores.
Everything is for sale in this region of opportunities instant education
inclusive. It seems that academe suffered the most during the numerous shock
therapies and transition periods showered upon the impoverished inhabitants of
Eastern and Central Europe. The resident of decrepit communistera buildings it
had to cope with a flood of eager students and a deluge of anachronistic scholars.
But in Russia the CIS and the Balkans the scenery is nothing short of
Dantesque. Unschooled in any major European language lazily content with their
tenured positions stagnant and formal
the academics and academicians of the Balkans are both failures and a
resounding indictment of the rigor mortis that was socialism. Economics
textbooks stop short of mentioning Friedman or Phelps. History textbooks should
better be relegated to the science fiction shelves. A brave facade of self
sufficiency covers up a vast hinterland of inferiority complex fully supported
by real inferiority. In antiquated libraries shattered labs crooked buildings
and inadequate facilities student pursue redundant careers with the wrong
teachers. Corruption seethes under this repellent surface. Teachers sell exams
take bribes trade incestuous sex with their students. They refuse to contribute
to their communities. In all my years in the Balkans I have yet to come across
a voluntary act a single voluntary
act by an academic. And I have come
across numerous refusals to help and to contribute. Materialism incarnate. This
sorry state of affairs has a twofold outcome. On the one hand herds of victims
of rigidly dictated lectures and the suppression of free thought. These
academic products suffer from the twin afflictions of irrelevance of skills and
the inability to acquire relevant ones the latter being the result of decades
of brainwashing and industrial educational methods. Unable to match their
anyhow outdated knowledge with anything a modern marketplace can offer they default on to menial jobs rebel or pull
levers to advance in life. Which leads us to the death of meritocracy and why
this regions future is behind it. banking
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