Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Sunday, June 23, 2013

An inspirational video

This is a video I've just watched about what education should mean for students and teachers. I hope you like it as much as I have liked it. 


Thursday, April 18, 2013

Goya's series of etchings

These are some links with very complete information about Goya's etchings: 

http://www.museodelprado.es/goya-en-el-prado/

http://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/goya.aspx

http://goya.unizar.es/InfoGoya/Work/Grabado.html

And here you have one of my favourite etchings, from the Caprices' series. It's Caprice Number 37 and was  published for the first time in 1799. Its title is  Will the disciple be wiser?(¿Si sabrá más el discípulo?). 



On it Goya criticized the education of his time. He was influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment and trusted in education as the best way of changing and modernizing society. The notes that accompanied this etching were the following: "Braying is the only think a donkey teacher can teach" ("Un maestro burro no puede enseñar más que a rebuznar"), "Donkey teachers can only get little donkeys" ("Los maestros burros no pueden sacar más que borriquillos"). 

Monday, May 21, 2012

In defense of public education

Although this is a blog in English, I´m going to embed two videos in Spanish about the importance of public education. We all learn or work in a public school and I think we should think about what this means. In my opinion, this is not a political matter, but a matter of rights. The public school guarantees equal access to knowledge and it´s sad that at this point we still have to fight to defend this right. But, as Napoleon said, "the only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance". In other words, this is a battle worth fighting for. 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

5th of October


Today in social sciences we haven´t got class because Paqui has been on strike as the 90% of the teachers of the High school. Jose Ángel the head of studies has told us to go because the high school doesn´t have enough teachers of Guardia.
Image from Mari Carmen Lázaro

The strike has been called because the cuts in education are very hard and education level  is lower.
The president of Castile La Mancha, Mª Dolores de Cospedal has opted for an austerity policy, cutting in the most needed sectors;
                                     

-Education
-Health Care

The cuts in education include the firing up of 800 teachers, work to hours more, they won´t pay holidays to substitute teachers and teachers, less money for the high School.
The community will earn more than 80 million of €uros
The increasing of this two teaching hours is bad for students because the library will be closed during this year, teachers will have less hours to attend students and this year go on a trip will be very difficult.
When arrived this morning there were some teachers were striking.
This morning we only have 2 lessons of the 6 we have:

-Religion
-Spanish language

In my opinion is good to be n strike to fight for our rights. I think the president of Castile La Mancha won´t stop with the cuts but this strike will make that cuts lighters. If the cuts continued education will be worse. 


Tomorrow is the students strike, some students will go on strike all the day, like an excuse of not going to class. I will go on strike on 5th hour in maths, because the teacher is absent we will make a popular revolt, we will make banners with the sloggan :
Source:  http://educarcomoalternativa.blogspot.com/: