Ana Maria Vazquez
I had the opportunity to review part of the contents of the textbooks that now “good consciences” want to set on fire; It is curious that they have not noticed the educational modifications from globalization and neoliberalism and that only a few voices were in disagreement.
The first and serious one that I remember is the suppression of the subject of Civics, there was an attempt with Salinas and then the final blow with Fox. Why? Because one of the postulates of the neoliberal doctrine is individualism, despising the sense of community because of fierce competition.
For the neoliberal, the human being does not matter, but rather the human capital and having before being. Globalized education led us to allow world quality standards to define the fittest, the most productive, forgetting the community sense of unity, teamwork, since the united human being does not serve the system because it associates, rebel, unionize, protest.
That was not excellence for the neoliberal, education had to be governed by standards dictated by the dominant groups and thus, industrialists and businessmen began to dictate their own rules of the game and insert them into education.
Citizenship, a subject that teaches you the common good, caring for your country, city, person, community, was banished, it was the most dangerous, it induced respect and that was unthinkable in a competitive regime that proclaimed, “it doesn’t matter what you tread in order to grow”.
This is how several generations were educated from Carlos Salinas, the father of neoliberalism in Mexico, under a strict absence of values in exchange for “having to have”, that was success, that’s how they began to measure themselves since then and the values instilled at home were insufficient to stop the wave of individualities that, if they did not have, they snatched. Today they want to stop the new books for, among other things, the inclusive language, but they omit something that is pointed out on the same page that shows “…the important thing is not to memorize data, to hoard information to feel special or unique; what is important is to understand that we are not alone” Humanism against neoliberalism, that is the real fight.
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2023-08-02 21:32:12
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