"When it comes to education, 'even Turkey' has something to teach the EU
Friday, June 16, 2006
Beware the innocent appearance of this modest word, 'even.' It’s a journalist’s trap, just one of many in any language. Subjective prejudice can easily hide within such a seemingly objective term, and so it was with last week’s cover of Newsweek magazine: 'Europe’s Failing Schools.' The story concluded a paragraph examining the budgets Germany, France and Italy sets aside for education with the following sentence: 'Last year, even Turkey surpassed these three.' Why 'even'? "
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