History Of Kirkland Towel

The educational maze O tempora and mores

Everyone seems to agree on one thing: the educational system in this country is a disaster. Another thing is the solution. The deterioration of education in Spain is equal to the conquest of freedom, although it seems a paradox. In my opinion, low-skill my only source is my own experience as a mother, there are multiple factors that have made teaching has led to this disastrous situation.

one hand, reforms that do not know what served. It was first insult rote knowledge and memory began to be an underappreciated quality and bad taste, according to the latest pedagogical trends. So one of the characteristics of the human being ceased to be used, resulting in impaired intellectual development.

memory is cornered and lowered the bar, so you do not have much school failure. As that failure was still done, he turned down the bar, and dropped the bar and lowered the bar ... and so far today. The children spent of course but were functionally illiterate.

In fact, more and less effort was needed pass the course. Unfortunately, knowledge is acquired through hard work, so that our children were becoming more ignorant.

complicated substances, those that require study and, therefore, effort was banal. The children could use calculators on simple arithmetic, for example, preventing them from acquiring computational skills which, after all, contribute to intellectual development.

Secondary education materials were eliminated that were considered "useless" as the Latin. Nobody seems to realize that Latin is found to be a major tool for the study of languages, and not just derived from it, but others whose fundamentals are very similar. Moreover, Latin is a language "logic" that helps decisively to the intellectual, understanding.

selection dikes were removed. Access to secondary education had to pass a test of minimum-income bachelor, subsequently passed the bar exam "fourth" to continue in high school, and a new bar examination to reach the pre-university course. The implementation of COU led to the removal of the bar examination, but remained the entrance exam to university. That is, removed three filters were debugged to the best students. Not always the smartest, most courageous also.

who did not exceed the filter had other educational options through their baccalaureate work. Hence came generations of mechanics, carpenters, electricians ... and many of them subsequently had access to the degree of expertise, which until last year known as technical careers: quantity surveyors, or demons call today, I think managers building, through technical-architects, technical engineers, surveyors, technicians, aeronautical, electronic ...

Meanwhile, Spain went from being "a great and free" (free as it is ludicrous), the country of autonomy in educational skills. And there had been the last straw. History, geography, language and almost all humanities subjects are constricted according to geographical area. If the old educational system is studying history of Spain, was replaced by the history of my people. We stopped to have a common history, a common geography and a common language.

The horizon narrowed, his eyes ceased to be universal. If in my high school years of elementary to the most awkward in my class know to run and jump the capitals of Europe, now not even know the regional capital.

education has become utilitarian, but the immediate utility. Intellectual development, the mechanisms that allow us to keep learning, have been limited to a degree that is reasonable only study what is economically profitable at the moment.

And if there were not enough pests that attack the school, joined the family relationships change and loss of parental authority. More than loss of authority, dereliction of responsibilities.

stopped requiring parents to consent. Instead of being an authority figure, a guide to behavior, the parents became protectors. And not corrected deviance, were justified. The punishment was replaced in the best case, by bribery, but the most common was their removal.

the absence of parental authority, the authority of the teacher-reflection of the first-faded. Parents forget that education is the responsibility of the school, but education is your responsibility. And education is difficult to teach.

Now, when all indicators are set off alarms, international agencies we point the finger and the few brains that are fleeing the fire, we got the hands to the head, but we are unable to find a way out of this maze . A problem that requires minimal agreements, but not only the political forces that are not for the work, but also educators and parents. And these, I fear, are not very aware.