Retvari: Hungarian education must be appreciated, not disparaged
Hungarian education must be appreciated, not disparaged, Bence Retvari, a state secretary at the Interior Ministry, said at the Tranzit festival in Tihany, on Lake Balaton, on Saturday.
Retvari said that the habit in public discourse of ridiculing anyone who put in a good word for Hungarian education needed to be broken.
He said a ban on mobile phones in the classroom was intended to boost performance. He added that hundreds of thousands of students were getting laptops, tablets and textbooks free of charge to support their learning.
He acknowledged that reducing social inequalities was an important task of education, but said that teachers couldn’t be expected to solve every problem outside of the classroom.
He noted that the student-teacher ratio in Hungary stood at 10.8, under the 12.1 average for the European Union.
