Was at Holy Name University to attend Family Day. The gym was full of students and parents. When I arrived, somebody was talking about the need to organize a cooperative among us parents. There were hundreds of people there and it was simply impossible to hear anything clearly. Perhaps a separate meeting with parents could have avoided this situation.

The rest of the program was better appreciated; you did not have to hear anything. Representative groups from the students, parents and teachers presented songs and dance numbers. As expected, they were all into Western-style songs and dances. Everybody took for granted these were all part of popular culture. This is basically a school for children from middle class families. I wonder what the situation is like in public schools. Do they have native songs and dances there?

Now I am again beginning to understand what the late Renato Constantino said about our miseducation and the poverty of culture.