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Patience versus time.

"Patience brings the rose. This phrase is considered by the director of Cermat, Jiří Zíka, to be a well-established saying. Among the questions in the Czech language graduation test is a requirement to complete a common proverb: ... a rose brings. Cermat relies on "patience". Against this view are 4,301 students who claim that "Time brings roses". The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Robert Plaga assesses the situation in a flash and concludes that over four thousand potential voters are worth more than one Zika, and promptly removes the director of a major contributory organization established by the Ministry of Education from his position because of a failure in the process of creating the assignment of graduation questions. So, as June begins, Zíka is being replaced by Michaela Kleňhová, who was previously recommended for the position by the selection committee. However, the reasons for the fact that 113 students suddenly passed the Czech language matriculation exam are a bit "on the water" (another common saying, although the less common "argumentatively on dry land" could be correct). According to the statement of the Institute for the Czech Language (Kamila Smejkalová), nowhere could we find a phrase containing the word "time" in the word order, i.e. in the required order. Similarly, all members of the Cermat committees agreed that the only correct answer is "Patience brings roses". The somewhat impatient dismissal of Jiří Zíka might even be in order, as there have been problems and even obvious errors in tests in the past, but as a signal to the school environment the form of termination does not inspire confidence. To dismiss the head of a company that has done its job well and by all accounts made no mistakes in a more or less exemplary manner smacks of expediency and fits in with the populist and power-driven practices of the current government in demise and without confidence.

 

 

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