Concern about gaps in the skills and knowledge of our pupils is voiced quite widely from time to time. Unfortunately, only when someone from outside Latvia has concluded as much. Why is that?
There is a political tendency to be busy, to invest, to make promises, but not to think about the results
If you have little knowledge yourself, you do not even know how or what you do not know...
A smart society is not always desirable or welcome
Many interests swirl around education. A "good result" is rarely mentioned among them
Welcoming and celebrating our country’s 104th and future anniversaries!
With love for our land, our Latvia, in our hearts, we can achieve the most unimaginable things. Everything we can imagine, everything we can wish for in the depths of our hearts, we can see come to pass. The future is in our hands, the fate of our land is in our hands.
(Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga)
...for there is nothing more absurd than the notion that by shouting 'Down with the army!' or 'Down with war!', the wisest, only possible, and most beneficial work for the sake of peace is being done.
Is it not true that lands and seas that no one wishes to defend will be taken by those who crave them and possess the will and strength to acquire them? Could our native land, with its fertility and advantageous ports, be a treasure that would fail to tempt any foreign eye?
