Even so Brazil has 52 million pupils - the majority in public schools -, the statisticians show that today one recent-born has only 59% of possibilities to complete the 8.ª basic grade. The educator and consultant Antonio Carlos Gomes detach three serious problems in an education without quality. The social problem: each pupil who leaves the school without learning has great risks of being plus an unprepared Brazilian, and to has needs on using social programs as minimum income or the Febem. The problem politician: pertaining to school illiteracy usually leads to politician illiteracy. Third, the human being: " the boy who repeats a school year, damages to its self-steam, a defeat feeling ", says.

(Estado de S. Paulo, 3/3)

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