Leisurely shopping for today's supper and for tomorrow when shops close ... time to reflect on the education issue and nuance the question ... compulsory schooling having had a progressive role when parents preferred to have their children earning money to feed the family ... a short-term but understandable view ... not always easy or possible to see that education may be a route out of poverty ... and who is to decide what is best for the child, the parents or the state? No easy answer to this one, depending as it does on the state of the parents and the state of the state ... not to mention the predominant values of current conditioning factories, which typically treat the child as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, then measured to see how much leaked out and how much was retained ... the other version has the child as a seed full of potential, to be nurtured ...lip service is sometimes paid to this more hopeful view ....
After lunch, a wander towards the beach in warm sunshine and back to be intercepted by Hans ... this time without hitch-hiking at all ...
A communal, multi-national supper is coming together in the hostel, lots of dishes emerging from the quite small kitchen ...
Merry Christmas dear readers, wherever and whoever you are ...
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