Is education declining Europe-wide?

The Brussels correspondent of the daily Romania libera Dan Alexe is worried about the future of education: "Many countries, France, Britain, Belgium etc. already know that the next generation will experience a shortage of teachers and trainers. My two children go to school in Belgium, and for years I have been watching the quality of education decline. I have seen that many teachers lack a comprehensive grasp of the subject they teach. Primary school teachers have problems with spelling, or they use only the Internet without ever entering a public library; these are people whose knowledge of the world is gleaned from television. Teachers are among the worst paid professional group, in both eastern and western Europe. ... Nowadays a teacher is a loser. A person who does not even have enough money to buy property."

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