From Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
The series “ONBOARD DIARY: education and teaching restarted by the pandemic”, came to an end yesterday.
Education educates the child, the adult, the elderly, the garbage man, the doctor, the architect, the judge, the lawyer, the architect, the administrator, the economist, etc.
Without education, even if a person has dozens of titles he is nothing more than a donkey laden with letters!
When consulting the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, the expression “donkey laden with letters” caught my attention. It reinforces the idea that accompanies me, that just teaching is not enough if we want society to evolve towards developed human beings.
Because a society that despises education and focuses only on teaching is similar to constructions made with drywall. When exposed to tornadoes it does not resist. It may be cheap, beautiful, and simple, but it will certainly collapse when the storm hits.
Calling teaching “educators” forgets that education is a product of life and has its first agents in the family. It is there where the child is born, who will be the adult who will perform all the roles that our society asks for and demands.
Talking about family today requires us to be up to date. It is no longer possible to talk about mom and dad, believing that this traditional model completely delimits the modern concept of “family”. Below are four new family models:
1 – multi-parent model: when there is no father or mother, they are socio-affective families (members linked by affection, mutual help outside the family, inclusion in the birth certificate is required – grandparents, uncles, friends take care of)
2 – socio-affective model: it is the socio-affective family composed of 2 fathers, 2 mothers and with a birth certificate (e.g.: stepfather, stepmother, homosexuals with a marital relationship, or a third party with two mothers or two fathers) without a marital relationship, but with notarial or judicial recognition in the birth certificate;
3 – single-parent model: family formed by a single father or mother (with an adopted or biological child. Single mothers or fathers who take care of their child alone, either because one of them has abandoned the child or because they do not recognize paternity or maternity);
4 – one-person model: in this one-person model, it’s you and you. It is a family made up of a single person. The focus is no longer on parents, but on the individual who is alone in life and must-see herself as her own family. It looks like a work of fiction, but it helps heal the traumas of being alone in life.
In this path, parents and guardians are or at least should be, the main agents of the educational process, which in Brazil and Latin American society lasts much longer than in North America, since when the sons finish high school, culturally parents almost kick them out to assume their adult responsibilities, while in the rest of the world, parents want to keep their children living in the same house forever. There are pros and cons to both cultures.
It is education that educates the doctor. In fact, the doctor, the judge, the lawyer, the prosecutor, the architect, the administrators, the journalists, because each one of the professionals with degrees and even with a lot of knowledge, but without education, are just donkeys laden with letters.
Education comes from NATURE itself, from the relationship of human beings with other human beings, and with all environments.
Education is in the wind that blows the warning that light rain or a storm is coming. It is in the look of gratitude or fury behind the masks we wear; Education goes far beyond the teaching practiced in schools and universities since there are illiterate people who have more education than presidents of republics because there are presidents, governors, mayors, senators, deputies, and councilors without education, who clearly do not go beyond donkeys laden with letters.
Education must be seen as principles of life. An educated human being brings with him ethical principles, that is, love for justice and hatred for injustice, love for the honest, and hatred for the dishonest.
Not long ago, the Brazilian press reported that the PCC – Primeiro Comando da Capital, and the CV – Comando Vermelho, two of the many criminal organizations that exist as a Parallel State in Brazil, were paying for the studies of their “soldiers”, including preparatory courses for entry competitions in public careers, so that its members are lawyers, officials, prosecutors, judges and ministers of the superior courts, all with the purpose of serving such criminal organizations.
These people can absorb knowledge, receive good teaching, and have dozens of diplomas, but what education do they have? They can become judges, but what justice will they practice?
With the ONBOARD DIARY series, my desire is to show that education is powerful to transform the human being, and that teaching is a tool, a by-product of education, that can scientifically and technologically transform the world, so that some may live excellently well, others live well, and so that others at least have the social dignity that the republican Constitutions promise.
The ONBOARD DIARIES published until yesterday, are portraits of real life, to which governments, society, and families have given little importance. Tomorrow, in the Courts of life, they can be proofs of the opportunities we had to be better, and yet we deliberately decided to fail, as expecting different results by always doing the same thing is crazy!
Thank you all.
