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review the paradigm of the current school?

Provocative look at education
The Uruguayan Pablo da Silveira philosopher questions the achievements of free and compulsory school

The Nation, September 25, 2009
Mariano de Vedia


In light of the results seen in the classroom and unresolved problems, education should review the paradigm of free and compulsory school. A controversial conclusion reached that the renowned philosopher Uruguayan Pablo da Silveira, educated at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and education specialist, noting that "in America there are two million children who are educated at home because their parents refuse to send them to school. " Da Silveira explained his new approach against qualified education specialists gathered at the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), where their ideas and entertaining and provocative style aroused particular interest.

In an interview with La Nacion, put in jeopardy the foundations for more than a century supporting the organization school in the world, saying that "the current model shows signs of exhaustion and all are dissatisfied with education." "The principle of the obligation could not build more than a century in a society in which all children attend school, much less that all may learn," said Da Silveira, minutes before presenting at the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) his book Parents, teachers and politicians. The challenge of governing education (edited by Santillana), which calls to review and test certitudes and that the educational world and conceived as sacred truths, as his vision, not so. With the gesture of stating the obvious, the philosopher River Plate said: "Argentina today devotes many more financial and human resources to education at the time of Sarmiento and the results are better."

Da Silveira Accompanying the presentation of the book, the director of the Department of Education of the UCA, Charles H. Torrendell, who held that he "would bring us something new," and the director of the Master of Education from the University of San Andrés, Silvina Gvirtz, who said his ideas "challenge us to think.

Born in Montevideo, Da Silveira is a professor of political philosophy, a columnist for the Uruguayan newspaper El Pais and has given lectures and classes on AAU universities in Argentina, San Andrés and Di Tella. Its production literature includes articles in academic journals and several books, including stories of philosophers, Politics & time and John Rawls and distributive justice.

For the author and journalist, one of the reasons for compulsory schooling is that for a long time it became clear that the average teacher was someone better qualified than the average parent. "That is starting to change," he warned, and invited to look into the educational system and not outside the causes of the deterioration of education.

- Is it desirable and necessary that the school be mandatory?

"Even within the ideas of compulsory and free, with an almost axiomatic, there are many questions, uncertainties and false certainties. If these two ideas, on which stands the whole education system can be problematized, everything can be questioned. The idea that prior to free and compulsory school there was nothing manifestly false, an ideological construct to justify the construction of state monopoly.

- Is there space to think today in a non-binding model?

"We have to distinguish between compulsory education and compulsory schooling. The bottom line is that the child learns.

- Is there a drop in the level of teaching?

"Yes, and is the result of mass access. When very few people had access to secondary education, teachers were an elite, hand-picked. Today is a great labor force, with its problems and difficulties.

- What is the attitude taken by parents against teachers?

"There's a situation that illustrates a lot: the father in the house corrects spelling teacher. It is a situation unthinkable in 1910. Today happens frequently. Changing social perceptions.

- Family excessive hopes are placed in school?

families "Before high expectations for schools and they were right. The schools were vehicles of social ascent. My intuition is that today are far less expectations than in the 50's.

- Do families have tools to tell whether a school is good?

-have tools, but may be wrong. But the State is mistaken. Many of the educational policies promoted in the democratic states in the last century and a half have been very imperfect and erroneous.

- What were those mistakes?

"There has been of all types and color. Public education has contributed actively to promote machismo for a long time. Textbooks were used filled with male prejudice. The State also gets stuck in the same things that people get bogged down.

- Was it something general?

"Yes. There are local or regional examples. In much of the public schools in Argentina and Uruguay in recent years was a position diffusely transmitted between teachers and authorities not to be too demanding in correcting spelling errors. The important thing was to encourage spontaneity and creativity. He really hurt a lot people.


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Nestor Corona: "The absolute certainties do not work to live"

The Nation, October 28, 2006


Interview with Dean of Philosophy at the University Argentina
Catholic

By Sebastian Dozo Moreno


A fan of Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger follower may be Dean of Arts at the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)? Yes is the case of Nestor Angel Corona, a freethinker Heideggerian Christian formation convinced, among other things, that the absolute certainties in philosophy do not work to live, that there can be no error in the history of philosophy and the university should not be the scenario clear and rigid formulas, but " the place of confusion ", without which no learning or thought genuine. Moreover

: Corona presents as positive the decline in absolute and non anathematizes modernity. Consider that today the man has a more acute awareness of their personal freedom and true philosophy must be a witness of life, with its lights and shadows.

In analyzing the philosophical tradition of the Church (which is also Naturally, the Catholic University), cutting Thomas, notes that in the modern world governing new paradigms, and therefore, we must overcome the school of philosophy, which originated in the Middle Ages.

respect, says the UCA should be more than ever open to dialogue with everyone, not just to learn. "Dialogue is able to recognize the truth of another," he says. Nestor

Angel Corona is now dean of the Faculty of Arts of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and Vice President for Latin America of the Comiucap, World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy. Among its works are: "instinct and symbol: Reading Freud and Ricoeur and Heidegger. The question of God," recently published.

-In Argentina and the world philosophical cafés proliferate, and more and more people come to philosophy for answers. What do you attribute this phenomenon?

"We are living a kind of general confusion, and it arouses interest in the sciences. Among them, the philosophy is the maximum effort to conquer man does lucidity.

- Times of crisis and confusion are conducive to the philosophy?

"I think so, but when we say crisis not just talking about major crises such as wars, but of personal crises that trigger appetite philosophical man. Will tell you more, and here I am with Heidegger: every man is a philosopher. Every man naturally aspires to lucidity. In this sense, the proliferation of philosophical cafes is a clear example of that philosophy has to do with life, and therefore is deployed at any time and place, not just in college.

"If the crisis is conducive to philosophical thought, is the very organized and comfortable life is an obstacle?

"Sooner or later, comfort bored, and this may be an incentive for philosophy. The need of freshness and novelty can lead man to thinking.

- Excessive comfortable and contented life more conducive to evasion than reflection?

"Well, I admit a pupil of Martin Heidegger, and he said that the comfortable life where everything seems to be solved, provided, as a kind of fog that seeps under the door, slips distress, although it is true that also multiply the tools to deny it, and those instruments are always in the form of evasion. Football, for example, which is a sport that I admire, when multiplied to infinity and become the commentary on the commentary, it becomes a kind of opium of the people, as it was in the past some kind of religion.

- Is the "commentary on the commentary" is not typical of academic environments, in which criticism is abused?

"No doubt, that the phenomenology and launched a battle cry to say that we must go to the same things as we have, without prejudice. But is the risk of criticism of criticism, a kind of schooling that have been minted in the philosophy of Christian.

- What is the school?

-philosophy is when it becomes a mechanism that only works: you just push out a concept and all other concepts, and the reality that led to this concept is a long distance. I have no doubt that anti-philosophical attitude has to be banished.

- To accommodate else attitude?

"Look: the large category of our time is the experience of life itself. All the effort of philosophy is to try to be a witness of life, is trying to speak without detached from life, something that by others, are clearly in Nietzsche, that the issue is a copy philosopher. It must be said directly and brutal: a philosophy all you need to care about is life, with its failures, successes, joys and nothing but life.

- Do you think that today people seek solutions to their existential dilemmas more on philosophy than psychology, and now there is a symbolic rivalry between Freud and Socrates?

-When psychology is deep, it is also not mere philosophy and psychology, and this is something that can be clearly seen in the work of Lacan. You can not even make good clinical without an anthropology, that is, without a vision of all reality.

"In an age like ours, individualism evident, which are no longer afraid of freedom or social condemnation, what happens to the Christian morality in the past tried to establish itself as a universal parameter conscientiousness?

"Today we witness a decline of absolutes, and I think we should greet this as a positive awareness of personal freedom and the time value of human life. In all that is affirmation of life, with its contradictions and risks, would not fear being Nietzsche. And as for morality, it seems to me that no morality is imposed by a philosophical foundation, but the moral sense when men are examples of right conduct.

"When the Christian thinker Charles Peguy asked his opinion on the moral, annoyed said:" Ah, that thing! " Do you agree that morality is an invention?

"I think it's great Péguy response. And I understand this: the objective formulations due and not due, ie, the norms, is something after life, and if not, then morality is an invention. Christianity is a lifestyle. The regulations come after.

- What do you think of the philosophies that, to the horror of moral evil and see the error as a necessary step to achieve good and the clarity to which you referred in the beginning?

"If the error and evil is a moral imperative, I say no. Now, in the case of "no choice but to" grant, absolutely. Not achieved the right way without too many mistakes. Anyone who is honest with his own life can attest to this.

- Catholic University of Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, is in a position today to engage the world, being that its theoretical foundations are those of Santo Tomas Aquinas, a monk who lived more than 700 years?

"It's an important question [smiles] and has to do with my position at this university. I think you have to distinguish between thinking and thinking Tomistic Thomist, and bear in mind that Thomas Aquinas was a great revolutionary in his time, who dared to bring the philosophical thinking of the Church was a pagan Aristotle, the which brought him many headaches.

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