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[RCM
17.03.2008]
On
last 15th March 2008, brother leader Muammar Al
Qathafi met with the secretaries of the people’s committees
of twelve universities in the Great Jamahiriya in the Syrt
city which was holding the first interuniversity festival of
song.
The leader
took that opportunity to reemphasize on his speech during
the 31st commemoration of the Establishment of
the people’s authority held last March 2nd. “the
State will no longer be in charge of services and
production, people will get the returns of oil and they have
to manage their services and production on their own as they
see fit with complete freedom not depending on anyone to
serve them as things were in the past … Government cheats on
people and people depending on government in any place in
the world. We are in a Jamahiriya system and this was
supposed to be from the beginning, but we said maybe we are
unable to manage that in the past period, but from now on
there is no excuse... People tried everything and I think
they have become convinced.
As for the education, the
State must no longer be in charge of running education, as
of the next school year, God willing, - this year things
will continue according to the existing order but as of next
year the State will no longer be responsible for all
educational stages. Teachers, students and parents will
assume this responsibility of running all educational
institutions, they will receive all assets available in
these institutions and use it to serve their educational
interests.
Buildings are available,
regarding universities we have 12 universities with classes
and lecture halls air-conditioned. All laboratories,
libraries, text books will remain in the faculties and
university departments. All that is the property of the
people because it came from oil which is the property of the
people. No one can say to the people pay me for these
buildings, laboratories, halls and air-conditions, because
that belongs to the people in the first place. Oil belongs
to the people and from it we made these universities and
their different facilities. This is the gain: That all
properties and assets belong to you professors, students and
parents.
Basic People's Congresses
with their Communes must issue the law that organizes the
relation between the professors, students and if we enter
into calculations, the matter will be comfortable... and
there will be no problems. I gave you here the deadlines,
but the details are your job, I mean technically and from
the administrative point of view.
The state will clean its
hand... the State has the money of the people and now it
will give back the money to the people.
In the past the duties
were with the State, which vowed to take care of them even
before the revolution the state owned oil as a public
wealth, this is but in practice the state is serving its own
and squandering and robbing the wealth of the people
embezzlement and extortion become rampant.
Why we steal something
which our possession?
It’s like someone who has a stash of dates, he is supposed
to have the freedom to eat from it the way he likes, piece
by piece, by a handful or by a bowl, not to crawl to cut off
light and start stealing it. That's what is happening now...
the people’s monies are put in a stash that's the treasury
or the central bank and we start stealing it, why? Because
we, the people are not convinced that the money which is
ours, is being spent on us, therefore we resort to stealing
public money, forging documents and cheating in exams thus
corruption becomes rampant.
Nevertheless the people
are not satisfied with areas like education, they are asking
where is the oil money... why should students sit on the
ground in schools where textbooks and so on. The people over
the last 40 years are blaming the people's committees of
education and higher education.
So, please, we are sorry
this is our money, give us! They request. We give it back to
you and take care of your own education, but do not cheat in
exams and do not falsify a certificate.
This is some thing you do
for yourself, you no longer can present a certificate to the
state in order to employ you... this is no longer be the
case, there is no compulsion like what is going on in this
demagogic practiced by the countries of the world that basic
education is compulsory and also illiteracy eradication.
This boasting by the
countries of the third world in particular is an
unsuccessful project. Now, there is going to be complete
freedom and complete rest, there will be no compulsion at
any educational stage. I gave an example when I talked on
the day of people's authority and I said, we suppose that a
family of four or five children, one of them may say from
the beginning that he is not interested in studying.
Now, at this time,
hundreds of thousands may new forced to enter this
educational stage and fail costing the society money,
because they are not interested to take this direction, as
time goes by, hundreds of thousands will become in millions.
They fail because they were forced to go through the
compulsory primary and preparatory education at least. Why?
What is going on in the
world is demagogic, unsuccessful experiments, unsuccessful
governments and the governmental theory is totally
unsuccessful, that which says government, people,
representatives and president while hundreds of people die
for the sake of this or that president... this is nonsense
ridiculous and human backwardness.
We said the world is
turning but did not change and we will change it... Yes, we
start with ourselves to change this society and make it a
Jamahiriya society; people will come to see the shape of
this Jamahiriya society. I mean, it is out of question that
people say no, let the state take care of education. No… no,
how it takes care of education? by money, the money is given
to you, take the money of education or they say let the
state take care of health, no, by what means? but oil's
money, that money is given to you and you alone mind your
own health.
And so is the case with
the rest of services and production: The state builds house,
cultivates a farm or make goods and industry, how does it
make that? not at all, the state does not cultivate, you
alone do that. The state is a fence. It is known that people
has entities and by his decision, the society's decision. He
is prepared to be able to defend itself where people are
organized and trained by specialists and in case of war or
attack on this free society, arms stores are to be open and
all people carry arms and fight in self-defense.
Regarding internal
security, people organize itself and secure itself through
people's security or public security etc. There are
specialists that can enable people to train on security
matters in order to secure its internal security. There must
be internal and external security, to defend from the
outside and to have security inside.
Justice is there, there
must be courts, and prosecution to protect people's rights
by law. All that is to be issued by the people, not by a
parliament, representing the people or by a ruler,
president, king, sultan, sheikh or emperor, but by laws to
be issued by the people, article by article, so that people
will honor the laws that they made themselves.
Concerning the relations
of this society with the outside world, it has foreign
affairs entity and all external affairs are to be affiliated
with it. The state is to be in this form, other than that
is to be cancelled... all this administration is to be
cancelled and nothing remains other than the necessary
utilities organized by the state.
If you say, passports must
be issued by the state... well and the identification cards
to be issued by the state... ok, even the numbers of houses
and streets are to be done by the state. Then it is possible
that a public entity be responsible for carrying out this
process, but not according to personal desire.
There are 20 airports in
Libya why there aren't 20 companies from the people... from
the people who have oil money... they can do business with
foreign banks… they have their own money, they can borrow
and they can pay back.
He who earns 1000 LD a
month, now can invest it to earn 5000 per month by investing
in your earning you can come up your income to 20 or 30
thousands a year.
I mean I do not want to
repeat the debate and say let the state take care of
education. We are talking about education and the people in
the audience are university professors. The state will as of
next year take no responsibility of education. You should
take care of this. Start from now reorganizing the 12
universities which have a quarter million students and
between nine and ten thousand professors. They will take
over in universities. The relationship between the student
and the professor and between the professor and parents will
be determined by law.
There will be someone who
would say the student whom he teaches must pay one thousand,
another one hundred and a third 3000. No not that way the
law will determine the cost of education of every student at
university and the parent will undertake to pay the fees
which in the past he was unable to pay because money was
with the state and now the state has given them to him, now
he can easily pay.
Suppose professors like we
have in the audience are among those who qualify for oil
money distribution. One might say I have one thousand or my
family has five thousand dinars why should I take pains in
teaching at university?
This is possible and you
might as well say I want to earn more and pursue my teaching
job. This has to organize by law.
For example if a professor
earns 1000 for his university job and now he is eligible for
1000 from oil money and he said he wanted to continue
teaching at the university, how can this be resolved. He
could be given 200 or 300, that the money which a student's
parent is paying for the tuition of his son and not the
state because the state has no more money. You are free...
You might say give me my share and I do not want to educate
him in Libya. Thus there will be no more favoritism in
sending students abroad for study.
We have according to the
statistics book one million students in the primary
education because they are forced to enter the primary and
secondary schools, compulsory by law and this is what we
call injustice.
May be half of those do
not want to be educated, since there are those who want to
be carpenters, cook or a barber, or a musician, or artist or
painter. They say they are not interested in attending
primary and preparatory schools, but all they need is to
learn to read and write and learn numbers only.
For example, one of your
children may want to be a cook, well, let him learn how to
be a good cook or may be he wants to become a musician or
interested in sports or may be animals or bee breeder or a
fisherman, let him free to choose what he wants to be other
than being forced to go to school and finish his education.
When there is freedom and
people free in this manner, there would be no compulsion, or
oppression and even psychological disease. Each would pursue
the kind of work he is interested in from the very beginning
and according to his capabilities and personal tendencies
without being forced.
Thus we will not see 1
million squeezed against their consent in the primary
education... one million against 400000 teachers. It will be
total freedom, I mean people would not engage in the
traditional educational institutions that exist... someone
would say he wishes his son to learn medicine, bring a
physician to house or go to the clinic or elsewhere, another
says the same thing, therefore there will be no crowded
colleges like now... How many students sit in one
classroom... why you have done this... why squeeze so many
pupils in one classroom?
There could be few or no
students in a classroom. A doctor would ask students who
wanted him to teach them medicine to buy the necessary
materials and a lab, that previously purchased by the
university which is the state. Another would say look what
they have done, let us do the same in our street why should
we pay the college when we can pay the doctor. There will be
no more cheating no forgery.
There are according to the
statistics before me a quarter million students in
universities and from nine to ten thousand professors...
Intervention:
The number is not correct...
The Leader:
higher or lower?
Intervention:
312000
The Leader:
Good, but there are
foreigners and others who will leave there loss. To make the
process simpler suppose we have 250000 students each to pay
1000 LD there will be a total of 250 million LD. Every
student pays 1000 because he has money from oil that was
previously with the state.
10000 professors to
receive the 250 millions. That means each professor to earn
25 thousand LD which unthinkable even in Scandinavia. Theirs
could be the highest income from a university professor in
the world.
In the countries where
people who earn more do not anticipate subsidized goods or
services. The support staff in such situations would need
funds as well. Yes they too will have their share of oil
money in exchange.
You may argue that the new
facilities need maintenance. It is possible that 5000 could
be deducted from the 25000 a professor would earn to
allocate for such expenses.”
The leader with the
secretaries
of the 12 Libyan
universities
since Syrt city.
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