CNN report: Hungarian government’s state-sponsored schoolbooks

The Hungarian government attaches great importance to the issue of European migrant crisis in television, radio and state-journalism. Now, it seems that the migrant crisis and the Hungarian government’s nationalist and Christian ideas are slipping into education, too. CNN reported about Hungarian teachers’ worry and dissatisfaction about the content of the Hungarian schoolbooks.

American journal CNN reported that new Hungarian history books that include state propaganda are now available and will be used in Hungarian elementary and secondary schools. The state-written schoolbooks praise Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s statement that “Hungary considers being a homogenous country as a value”, next to which statement is an ‘illustration’ of multiculturalism, where refugees are camping at Budapest Keleti railway station in 2015.

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CNN asked teachers, professors and publishers, many of whom think that the Hungarian government is fighting a crusade to shape the Hungarian education based on the government’s ideas. The experts say these ideas include nationalism, willingness to get married and start a family and conserving Christian values, one of the reasons why the Central European University moved to Vienna and the gender studies program was eliminated from Hungarian universities.