In text 1, teacher observed that:

Brazil: Two experiences of teaching in public and private schools Text 1 Public I've been teaching English for almost 10 years, and my most interesting experience was when I started teaching at a public school besides teaching at a language institute. This school was located in a very poor neighborhood, and there were all kinds of social problems surrounding it. My initial excitement was tested when I started to talk about what I was going to teach and the importance of learning English at school when a student raised his hand and said: "Teacher, why should we learn English if even don't know how to speak Portuguese very well?" My first reaction was saying that maybe he could learn English better than Portuguese and one day he could have a very good job, even travel abroad. And another student said: "Come on, teacher, we don't have money for the bus ticket to go downtown, how can we go abroad?" Text 2 Private My experience of teaching in Brazil is very limited. I work for a very large private English teaching institution in Rio. Students often start to attend private schools when they are 9 or 10 and will attend year in year out until they become proficient users of English. I hate to think how much this costs the parents! In Brazil exams are very important even in private language schools. This means we have to work very closely to a syllabus as this syllabus, which is usually drawn roughly from the current course book, is tightly bound to the end of term exams. The certificate that a student gets for passing is all-important, because there is not a decent job in Brazil that does not require a certificate from an English school.