Who's the smartest?

Some time ago, I looked into schools in, "Schools in Athens, district of Attica".

In an article published a week ago Macleans, the Canadian magazine, reproduces a study conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation on the quality of education and life-long learning.

Greece is a country known for political platitude and soviet-style political propagandists. All its politicians agree, education is crucial to the future and, in support of this belief it would seem the country's present socialist government renamed its ministry of education to "...education, life-long learning and....".

So how does the country fare in this study? Not very well, despite the politicos' concern.

Not surprisingly, Greece is at the bottom of the list.
I.e. education in Greece sucks. Let alone life-long learning: we don't do that here. We drink freddo and smoke ciggies instead.

For those who still insist on wasting time learning, that leaves two alternatives -- apart from moving out of the country, that is:
* private education (maybe)
* self-education

In actual terms, the educational level of Greeks is surpisingly "normal". The educational level of many Greeks is in sharp contrast with the abysmal level of the Greek educational system (called a "system" in extremis).

Drawing an elementary conclusion, it would seem that Greeks are champions of self-education!