After 20 years, Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis, the youngest member of the Karamanlis Government, and journalist Manolis Kottakis, a key figure at the newspaper "Eleftheros Typos," restate their thoughts on education on the occasion of the renewed pursuit of revising Article 16 of the Constitution.

They express their disappointment that the dilemma they posed as representatives of DAAP-NDFK and as representatives of the students of Democritus University of Thrace, regarding the abolition or not of the monopoly on higher education, remains relevant. The proposal they made in 1987 for the coexistence of public and non-state, non-profit universities remains merely a "proposal." They wonder: "The world around us is changing... What about us?"

They feel morally justified as representatives of their generation, as they identified early on the path of productive competition and creative rivalry as the only way forward. However, they also feel bitterness because what is universally taken for granted is, in Greece, still a demand for the noisy minorities...

Thus, they do not limit themselves to republishing their old proposal, but also advance modern arguments and examples in favor of the revision of Article 16 of the Constitution.