DREAM / The Prime Minister resigns and wakes up under the Parisian bridge!

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2026-10-20 13:30:15Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
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I don't want to deal with the political affiliation of the vast majority of teachers who have lined up in a petition with a single request: the resignation of the government! It is their right to have convictions, sympathy, and even political militancy.

I don't even want to deal with those among them who are rumored to be selling exam grades and theses. As long as there are no proven charges, the presumption of innocence also applies to teachers.

Not even with those who hold scientific titles and degrees with plagiarized studies and who no one knows what new they have brought to science. Even less with those who have exploited students to write dissertations, with which they have later obtained titles, jobs and salaries.

I don't want to dwell on these, but I can't help but remember them. Because part of the responsibility for the state of Albanian universities and students lies precisely here.

Of course, not everyone is like that! There are many honest, professional, and dedicated professors who work passionately every day in the classrooms.

But the fact remains that our universities have not yet managed to give their diplomas the value and competitiveness they should have in the Western job market. They are not even valid for our market, but come on. This is the real failure that should worry educators!

But let's get back to their political behavior.

First, professors are not government employees. Universities are autonomous institutions, electing their leaders, hiring their staff, and administering their own operations. Public funding is the responsibility of the state, but academic autonomy and accountability for administration cannot be eliminated every time a political culprit needs to be found.

Secondly, they are so autonomous that they have preserved academic structures and offerings that in many cases seem to belong to another era. We still have faculties and programs that function with the logic of the communist era, while technology and artificial intelligence are radically changing the knowledge market. For example, there are some faculties of foreign languages, but how adapted is their offering to a world where a translation program in
ChatGPT costs less than a semester of study?!

Third, the involvement of teachers in politics is quite normal. But they should do politics as citizens, as individuals, and even as members of parties. There is no reason for academic authority to be used as a scientific certificate for a political demand. A petition signed by teachers is not necessarily a smarter argument than anyone else's petition.

Fourth, why is dialogue being rejected?!

What academic logic is this: Resign, then we'll dialogue!

Who will you dialogue with after he resigns?! With the former prime minister?! Or do you consider the dialogue successful only after the other side no longer has the competence to decide?!

This may be a rally slogan, but it can hardly be called a university rationale.

Fifth, let's get over it all, Albania is the problem, what is the political alternative that the teachers offer?!

Bring the DP (to which they obviously belong) into power without a vote?! Impose a transitional government?! Or return us to the political experiments of transition, some of which have been accompanied by serious crises and loss of human lives?!

A teacher should know that the government's resignation is not a government program. It is a request for resignation, not an alternative for leadership.

Sixth, what political model are they suggesting to Albanian society?!

The model of stones, fire, and destruction of common property, to then produce heroic images for Instagram?!

Or the model of collective fear, where anyone who dares to think differently is immediately labeled a patronizer?!

Is this the democratic culture that the university should convey?!

If the university has a mission beyond the diploma, it is to teach people to think, to reason, to argue with arguments, and to accept different opinions.

Not to replace reason with the crowd and argument with stone.

Ultimately, educators have every right to demand the government's resignation. But if they choose to support violent methods of political imposition, then they have a moral obligation to explain what model of democracy they are defending.

I repeat, calling for the overthrow of a government does not mean you have a political alternative. And having a scientific title does not mean that every political position you hold is scientifically sound.

I don't know, but educators who seek democracy by legitimizing violence don't seem like an alternative for the future to me.

However, I will maintain my respect for them. But, respect for the pedagogue does not oblige me to respect his/her political logic. Especially when it is lacking.


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