Szilárd Demeter

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The teaching of History will change in Hungarian schools from September

There is a growing opposition in Hungary , the government changed The National curriculum, whose aim is to convey a spirit of national pride in the school students.

critics, including many schools and teacher organizations, to draw Parallels with The Communist era, as the governing party imposed their own ideology.

Szilard Demeter , a measure Prime Minister Viktor Orban is the "culture war" on liberalism.

He studied a large, dark cloth bound volume, when I will celebrate in his office at the petőfi literary Museum in Budapest -a book of essays, the 80th birthday of The National -conservative playwright, Ferenc Herczeg , in 1943.

The hand-written dedication on The Front is from Hungary , nationalist war-leader, Miklos Horthy , of Hungary into an Alliance with Nazi Germany .

Admiral Horthy wrote: "I thank The Almighty That he gave, Ferenc Herczeg , our nation, and preserved him in all of his creative power. "

Herczeg, in addition to other nationalist-minded authors from The 1930S , has just been made mandatory to be reading in the new national curriculum, starting in September .

Szilard Demeter is influential in shaping Hungary 's cultural education

Mr Demeter, he was consulted on the curriculum, but widely accepted.

"We need to be able to hand on our heritage to Future Generations . If we have a clear idea of what it means to be a family, the work, the respect, the love of home, are we obliged to. This is what public education is about. "

is formed in the same point, less poetically, from a government spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs .

"There is no such thing as a neutral education. The formation of teaching systems about values... about what we think are the values in the Hungarian society. And to are the values That we worship very much, those heroes who helped us to survive the centuries behind us. "

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The teaching of History and literature are the epicenter of the disputes.

Rival online petitions have been launched, for and against the new curriculum. Currently, the enemy just in front, with 24,011 signatures before, during, 23,010 support.

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Politecnico Alternative Secondary School , in Budapest , 9. District, I visited a History class for 17-year-old. It started with a quiz about the early Middle Ages in Hungary . Twenty participants competed with enthusiasm to answer quick-fire questions on their phones.

"What I miss most in the new curriculum thinking plan is critical," teacher Erika Erdei said to me, in a break. "The Students are told, 'believe The Teacher ", instead of encouraging you, think you to and for yourself. "

One of your colleagues, Kata Szasz, pointed to another problem.

"Only of the Hungarian History will be taught in a continuous shape Global History in a fragmentary way, as far as it affected Hungary . "

A museum's facade in Budapest to honor outstanding personalities in Hungarian History ,

In his office In the vicinity of the National Museum , The President of The Association of Hungarian History teachers, Laszlo Miklosi, is one of those organizing resistance to the new curriculum.

"who wrote this curriculum, and without a doubt, even those who commissioned you to set out of them, to the praise of the glorious past... they want us to re-touch The Past , to make it better than it was. This is a distortion of History . "

He is offended, especially by the proposal, the victorious battles, it should be stressed, while defeats are played down.

"Is it possible to learn just as much from the defeat?", he asks wistfully.

opponents argue That the changes should be immediately withdrawn because they "damage The National unity and culture, students and teachers, and to poison the public thinking".

Fans are asked to the new curriculum, simply because "children need to be educated To Love their country".

In a state-of-the-nation speech on February 16, Prime Minister Orban, national pride of the heart.

"The Key to an upward trend in the progress of The Restoration of national self-consciousness. To prove So, in 2010, we have set ourselves The Goal to ourselves - and, of course, The World -That we ducked someone, and not the people, who seemed to be anxious, as we pleaded for IMF loans and EU money.

"The program was easy. It was to show who we really are, to show That we the Hungary : a thousand years of Christian statehood, monumental cultural achievements, a dozen Nobel prizes, 177 Olympic Gold medals, a strikingly beautiful capital, excellent technical and IT professionals, and a rural Hungary is blessed with agricultural Genius . "

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Source of news: bbc.com