The mind map
of the Colombian representation shows us a very particular reality that
moves between the optimism and the pessimism and gives us the idea of an uncertain
but still open future. We can see through the different articles that the
importance of the education is a priority that concerns all the actors of
society, from the worried mother who wants to give an appropriated education
for her children to the ministers and governors who must provide the best efforts
to improve the quality of education.
One of the
most interesting sentences that can be found in this document is the one
mentioned by Antanas Mokus ex-mayor of Bogota “La confianza en los profesores
es una premisa básica” The confidence on
teachers must be a premise. As we know the society is built around the family,
but the families must trust in a group of professional who are in charge of the
school process of their children. It is mandatory that we as society believe in
the abilities of our teachers, and also we as teacher must give out biggest effort
to make the school the place that the society desires. A great example of it
can be the story of Natalia Patiño, a woman who became a teacher for choice.
But the
optimistic features do not come only from teachers, but also from the people
who rule the country, one of the articles that really surprised me was the one
about the increasing of money in the public universities for the next year
because it was one of the aspects that had been forgotten for the previous governments.
Another aspect is the improvement in the level of use of English according to
Education First EF, and that is the result of new politics in relative to the
teaching of foreign languages that have been implemented in the last years. As it
is mentioned in the Warton University article, Colombia’s reality is better than
before but we are facing lots of new challenges. And the education has the key
to face those challenges in a better way, but for it there must be a change
like the one presented in the video “the forbidden Education” which is a
masterpiece in education in the Latin-American modern times.
But as I
mentioned at the beginning of this reflection, the perspectives are also pessimistic
in some areas, maybe because the media sometimes emphasizes in the negative, or
maybe because there are some truths that cannot be hidden, things like the poor
use that most of our teens are giving to the internet, where they just want to
play, surf, chat, and hang out online. Maybe that is not only a problem, maybe
it is also an opportunity. I also found interesting the fact that most of the
teachers complain on the same things that students do, but if we see it deeper,
some of them are attitudes that the same educational system have instigated, and
can be changed by a deep change in the way education is conceived.
But the
culture and the society also bring their own diseases, one of them is the
culture of the “easy way” like in the article that presents the people that they
do not do either study or work, and that become scrubs of the society, as well
as the ones who prefer to beg to the government for a subsidy or a governmental
allowance instead of trying to find a job and earn their own money, and it is a
phenomenon that has been increasing in the last years as it was mentioned.
So as I
mentioned before the future is opened, but we need to understand our reality
and our history to solve this puzzle that the reality proposes today.
