ABSTRACT
To say that Europe invented warfare and that warfare was its principal bequest to the rest of humanity would be an exaggeration but not a large one. In relation to language, schools and universities in Europe frequently fail to reflect the linguistic diversity of their state in ways that might have facilitated communication, understanding and tolerance between groups. Turning to history, Greece can again be used as an example. Considering the image of Europe presented in the compulsory textbooks of Greek elementary schools, Flouris discovered that the references 'do not portray the image of Europe conceived by the European Union member states'. Religious education remains in many countries a cornerstone of xenophobia. Again the links between religion and warfare are manifold and school and university curricula are only one of the instruments of their mediation and reformulation. The science and technology taught in schools and especially universities is also explicitly linked to warfare.
