Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Debate about Cuban Education

Today we made a debate about Cuban Education. It was really interesting, though I thought they red too much from the Power Point presentation, because that is something we could have done ourselves.

I believe it is impossible to adpat the Cuban Educational System here in Chile, because Education is always related and supported by politics and it would be impossible to change the Political System (or maybe to radically do it), in order to change how things work out in Education.

In spite of what I mentioned before, I believe that Education in Cuba is IDEAL.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Musica's rebelion


Since last week, most of the people in the country watched and commented the episode of María Música Sepúlveda, the student who throws a jar full of water in the face of the Education Minister. I heard a lot of comments about it. It was a national new.
Nowadays, Música's school, Darío Salas, took the decision of canceling her registration and leaving her without school for the next year. In my opinion that was not the best decision to take, regarding to her schooling.
This situation could be a great opportunity for opening spaces where adolescents talk about that feeling of repression that they say that they have. I think that the attitude of María Música, obviously, was not the best, because she had to know her rights and her duties as a student and as a citizen. But as she is a teenager, we have to act like adult people and see further, and solve this problem with a good solution for Education’s experience.