I thought brilliant intervention Minister of Education's Alberto Sileoni to inaugurate a new school year in the Universidad Popular Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
Sitting next to Hebe and the rector of the establishment, Sileoni advanced concepts not only apply to the tertiary level / university, but to the whole education.
posed the Minister that any education system is directly related to the national project that seeks and anchoring in Paulo Freire, defended the new law on education as a model instrument of country we want.
further cautioned that "there are many who want a dumb and inert state, to defend the state after the service of popular majorities. There were strong examples, showing numbers of social strata of our country, where " only 5% of parents attended unfinished university tertiary-level" and now their children are able to attend college.
Blunt seemed his reference to the Public University. hinted that there is one thing that is public, but the university must also be popular. Public popular is a good summary for the current state of affairs at the university in Argentina, where "there are universities that are used for the establishment."
Militancy and popular education are countered in his speech to the theory of excellence misunderstood concept "stolen market" and that many teachers "bought " uncritically.
deepened respect for excellence, away from the reductionism so typical of liberals or confused (sum of contents), to keep it in axiological crisis which Argentina for neoliberalism. In this regard said "No one can ask that your child is a brilliant intellectual, but a bad person," then crushing to solidarity, cooperation, collective thinking.
Sileoni also said that there are many forms of illiteracy and realized the "political illiteracy " situation for many years, the owners were favored market.
Today he plays this role, prepare "them and they " able to put at the service of national causes and popular knowledge from the public and people are needed to build the project for the country, often on track and many other aborted by sectors of privilege.
The example I had a professor of Educational Policy and reads as follows:
" He approached the architect and said ..."
- I want constructing a building.
The architect said :
- What type of building do you want?
- You know, like any other building. Yes, put good materials.
The architect insisted :
- But tell me, for you will use that building
- No matter, you put everything that has a good building, good walls, large openings lit, ventilated corridors, finally, what all good building should have.
finally exploded architect :
- Look, I can not work without knowing it, I can not build in the abstract. What will the building? A prison? A hospital? A soup kitchen? A school?
This example used the teacher to make students think, how difficult it is to raise educational system without having a clear plan for the country you want .
And there we are. And that was Sileoni at the University of Mothers. And that is the Argentine people when you need to vote in October. And that we who form a critical mass when we must require the deepening of the model after October.
Ultimately, Sileoni not talk about education from a pedagogical point of view only, but from the profile of education policy under the national project to build.
And the questions remain the same as those made major national and popular movements: What you want to be in Argentina? "An agricultural exporter? "An industrial country? The country's finances? A fishing country? The country with the largest gaps between rich and poor? The country of decent and white for everyone? Does the country prevailing market and the theory of "overflow"? Does the country where the state plan development for all social sectors?. A country with very few?.
These questions are answered not only from the educational system, but without it, you can not. Sileoni made that clear.
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