It is common to hear that Chile is one of the Latin
American countries where neoliberalism is most advanced. This becomes visible
when we see that our basic rights are commercialized. We can see this in the
health, education and housing.
But I think that
what happens with education is the most important, because education is one of
the foundations of a society, is precisely in schools where values that are
considered fundamental are transmitted to our childrens, Neoliberalism
transmits values such as competition and individualism, ignoring that the
foundation of all learning should always be collective.
In Chile, this
start after the military coup on 1973, from there our education has been
privatized more and more.
Because of that,
over the last years young students have protested, stopping their activities
and siting their schools or universities.
Because of that,
over the last years young students have protested, stopping their activities
and siting their schools or universities for ask other education that should
understands them like critical subjects and not just recipients of knowledge.
For me there are
two principal challenges. The first is pass to the request to the proposition,
the education movement has been characterized by going to ask for free and
quality education, waiting for an answer from the State, but there are things
that we can start building from now without anyone's permission.
The second
challenge is understand that the problem is with a system, so problems are not
only on education, also this system affect workers, teachers, etc. So we have
to struggle together.
