The urban myth of the education

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The urban myth of the education
By: Carlos Damián July 15, 2012
The utopia of an illuminated educator
México. - Also to the youths they are granted inherent behaviors at their time, to be independent, resolved, venturesome, and mainly competitive. In the same way, statistics publish for international organisms as the International Organization of the Work (IOW), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), and the Program for the Development of the United Nations (PDUN), they underline the decrease of the illiteracy and the fall school desertion in the last decades.

Such a circumstance is reflected in the youth's increase that they want to follow university studies and of graduate degree, that which opens a fan of opportunities for the youths, avid of incorporating to the labor world. Every time they are more the children that their school cycles culminate with good success. To exception of Europe, in Latin America, Africa, and Asia they are the continents that have gone behind in education, except for some exceptional cases the universities they diversify their educational offer when seeing like they go in increase the students that obtain their studies’ certificates. This extraordinary affluence has produced an educational revolution in all the ways, generating bigger demands in a global order and they force the youths in general it is necessary to double its efforts and studies.

The thesis of an educated better youth
The thesis of a more prepared and gifted youth to face the real world is considered unquestionable. Today a 15 year-old youth, is said she knows more physics than Isaac Newton and more philosophy that Aristotle, perhaps but in absolute terms, the knowledge advances and it is accumulative. But it is doubted that they have the same reasoning capacity. Regrettably these statements, extended in certain atmospheres are a cartoon that distorts the reality. To look with this environmental lens supposes to build an image full with aberrations. To have access to Internet, to enjoy Smartphone cellular, Facebook, and to be active in the social nets, it is supposed that he is a very prepared student.

This is the widespread belief but we don't believe that the youth that enjoys these modern funds is a formed better youth that their predecessors, although it is necessary to respect the distances of the time, the time to that we refer has its flats, its specifications, it is not better prepared, neither it is the silliest, neither the most intelligent to be located globally. Even if we hurry the level of functional ignorance, and the level of functional illiteracy of the current professions, of the graduates, of the engineers, of the doctors in any discipline is at least alarming.

In a recent survey carried out in the Department of biology of the University Of Alcala de Henares, 76.8 percent of students in fourth and fifth course they recognized not to have read to Charles Darwin. And for experience, the futures graduated in political sciences and sociology don't know Mills, Sorokin, Aaron, Marcuse or Popper, neither to think of the reading of the classic, at most summaries of Marx, Weber or Durkheim. They ignore tendencies and thought schools. They don't know how to mention bibliography or to locate countries in the map. The orthographic and grammatical errors are biggest mistakes. What we said, without desire of bothering, is expandable to all the areas of the human knowledge.

In mathematics, contrary to the other countries, the girls almost respond as well as the children. Another remarkable characteristic is that in Finland the impact of the social differences on the result of the students is the lowest. In a very significant way, the students’ population fourth part less fortunate in socioeconomic terms is located, on the stocking of the countries of the OECD. The proportion of students that they obtained first floor results in mathematics is much smaller in this country that in any other part (6 percent against a 21 of the stocking of countries of the OECD). The fact derives of the great of the great trust that the students have in themselves, in their competitions and in its learning potential: the level of anxiety related with the learning of mathematics appears clearly lower that in the other countries.

In our country an educational polemic that has put on the discussion table we have: we should assist the students first or perhaps be the knowledge that we should assist first. With these questions on our table, the state-nation chose the students first, but a deep analysis of the necessities of the students is even observed that it is behind the great success of the educational system. The idea that a well developed, competitive student, it can deploy their potentialities and their more competitions easily he will acquire the basic knowledge. It is not the utopia of an illuminated educator it is just the idea that guides the action of all. The State, the municipalities, the directors of establishments, the professors… Finland respects the acquired knowledge, but it still respects more the individuals that are in teaching process. It is a diploma without doctor or he is a doctor without diploma. (La Jornada, mundo, p. 22, July 14, 2012).