R ecojo in a bookstore a free copy of Mercury magazine, which often offer interesting articles and reviews about the outlook for the current literature. In this case my interest is higher because it includes a monograph on the task of educating. When I open the magazine hoping to find opinions on the subject by some experts on the subject I was surprised that the article that opens the monograph is provided by Antonio Muñoz Molina, undoubtedly one of our best contemporary writers, but whose relationship with the educational world is for me unknown. After reading my puzzlement is even greater, as their views on education are not very different from that of my local newsagent, but better expressed, of course. That is, a series of trite clichés and outrageous attack on our country's teachers that reflect a profound misunderstanding of the educational world. Given my admiration for the author of Sefarad, this article leaves me quite misplaced I wonder how can the same person as analysis of different levels of depth. The answer could be found in postpiagetianos studies that have shown that the content of a particular issue or problem and our familiarity with it clearly influence the quality of our thinking about it and its resolution.
The main justification for their attacks on the group of professionals in science education seems to be the responsibility Muñoz ascribed to them in many of the changes in legislation occurred in Spain. The misinformation of the novelist is important if we consider that the main positions in the Ministry of Education when it introduced the LOGSE were made by professors of physics (Pérez Rubalcaba), or evolutionary psychology and education (Alvaro Marchesi, Cesar Coll, Jesus Palacios). This widespread discrediting of an entire professional group seems rather the result of personal issues for me unknown, and a mistaken attribution of responsibility. Or is what is riskier attack the educational psychology and its professionals?
I continue to read the monograph and my astonishment increases, as the following article is an interview with the juvenile judge Emilio Calatayud. In this case already knew some of his views on education in the family and school, so I can not say I produce surprise. This excellent judge takes several years to spread their ideas through different media and based on their experience with a highly skewed population, so the generalization from it is the least risky. It is not surprising that this experience will lead to the conclusion that the main problem of today's youth is an excess of permissiveness, making rescue calls for the authority figures at family and school. Well, I say I do not have some truth, but I also think that the analysis of the educational made by the judge is pretty simplistic, and that our youth need something different to hand back hard. Calatayud is within your rights to express their views in the media, what is worrying is that much more authoritative voices have fewer opportunities to do so, and we should acknowledge that the judge's show is very popular media: topics and simple ideas expressed with grace and accessible language.
The opinion of another author, Ricardo Moreno, is not very different from Muñoz Molina, although in this case is an education professional. Moreno reflection revolves around a view that he attributes to "eminent educationists" means that should not be educating students to be uncritical and obedient, and that he misrepresented and manipulated by equating the critical intelligence, which must surely be an important goal of education, with disobedience and disrespect for authority. It appears that Professor Moreno is stopped the clock at times Summerhill, since no current educational trend that I know, rejects the importance of promoting values \u200b\u200band respect for the rules. From there, Moreno's entire argument falls under its own weight, clearly reaching conventional levels according to the moral development proposal made by Lawrence Kohlberg .
Next article by José Antonio Marina, is more sensible and informed, and could not be otherwise if we consider that this is an intellectual who has spent years delving into the intricacies of educational matters. As a counterpoint to previous authors, Marina said "a teaching book is a treatise on the transfiguration of human reality." However, one begins to tire of reading always the same opinionated, which is that Marina is omnipresent.
's reflection Justo Serna, below, is more literary, and from the example of the experience of the protagonist of "The Mirror of the Sea" by Joseph Conrad stresses the importance of parents and educators as figures to set an example to young people about how to navigate the turns and unpredictable waters of today's world.
Finally I am surprised that the article closes the monograph is provided by Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron, and I fear the same thing happens to me I happened to read the reflection of Muñoz Molina: that I fall a myth. Well none of that, as this prestigious historian of science, is certainly a much stronger intellectual to rave so much, and simply sets out the educational ideas of Bertrand Russell. Ron Sanchez probably has had to recall the proverb contains some interesting hints and tips about the wisdom in the field of opinion on matters that do not know well, such as "shoemaker to your shoes" or "Loose lips sink ships."
Surely in this country we would be better if everyone is dedicated to what really is good at.
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