The researcher and education expert Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry said that Mitre, when he was president, would cross the Plaza de Mayo to go to the National Buenos school to sit in any classroom, where classes were given or there was an exam,
to see how things were going
.
This fact has no relevance in itself.
But it shows - the academic highlighted -
the importance that education had for the authorities of that time
, the Generation of the Eighties.
The political leadership always sets an example and its values are observed by society, commented the author of the classic book
“The Educational Tragedy”
, which described more than 20 years ago
the sharp decline through which education was falling in the country.
“I don't know if in Sarmiento's time society demanded education. But they were leaders who had a project. They knew that it was important for the people to be educated. The idea of educating the sovereign was an important idea,”
Jaim Etcheverry concluded the idea.
Today just the opposite happens.
For years now, Argentina seems to have been governed by an
endogamous leadership and far removed from people's daily problems,
such as education.
In the last two presidents this appears
in an almost pathetic way
.
Alberto Fernández
always saw education in sepia, he never thought of it as an engine of development.
For him it was always the image of a nondescript teacher standing in front of a classroom with chalk in her hand and a cup of tea on her desk.
Message from Alberto Fenández, when he announced restrictions due to the pandemic.
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That's why he closed schools unceremoniously during the pandemic.
That's why
we're not going to hurry with that, we have other priorities;
Whether a boy graduates sooner or later does not change anyone's life
.
“We have other priorities.”
No more words.
Milei doesn't care about education either.
She lives in her world of
“cultural battles”
, which can be very profitable for
prime time
TV or for the metrics of digital platforms, but which is
light distances from the needs of the people.
This explains the painful participation last week at his school, Cardinal Copello.
He never realized that he was speaking to students, with the asymmetry of the case.
Or that it was an educational field, which
must be pluralistic
.
Should all the teachers and students who were there think like him?
And if not, are they “shitty lefties”?
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Another student fainted while Milei was answering questions.
The worst thing is that in that same act Milei says that Argentine education (public and private) is
“a brainwashing mechanism
,” because it has “retro-red content.”
And
the best thing is to stay away from her.
If that is the reasoning:
how much do you think the State should fund education?
Does zero pesos seem good to you?
Fernández and Milei reflect, in some way, the entire Argentine leadership (also the business or union leaders) who, with nuances,
disdain education
.
The same one, which did not even include it
as one of the points in the May Pact
.
Meanwhile, the educational tragedy advances.