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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102284.html
Iran's Education Reform Takes Anti-Western Tack
(Washington Post) Thomas Erdbrink - Iran is overhauling its education system to rid it of Western influence. In universities, the curricula will be drastically altered, with officials from the Science Ministry working to strip out "Western theories" and replace them with Islamic ones. Dozens of professors have already retired or been fired. The Education Ministry will also introduce new courses designed to help students ages 12 to 17 acquire political analysis skills and prevent them from "being trapped by perverted movements and enemy plots or be imprisoned by satellite channels, the Internet and cyberspace."