Education and social transformation

Abstract

The neoliberal model that is taking over education must, in addition to privatizing educational institutions, control what is being learned in schools, and to this aim, it is introduced, based on the so-called "Educational Innovation", new learning formulas with the goal that knowledge, values, and educational attitudes are directly at the service of the needs of companies and the system itself. The ultimate goal of education must be emancipation, both personal and individual, as well as collective and social. In these times of crisis of all kinds: economic, social, cultural, ecological... it is more important than ever that our young people have the tools to understand how society works, defend themselves, and be able to improve it. And for this, the knowledge and wisdom accumulated by humanity are strictly necessary. Keeping students away from access to knowledge means having citizens without critical capacity, which turns them into docile individuals easy to manipulate.