What happens is the goal of education is to improve the standard of living in harmony with the environment of human beings, but to improve the efficiency and profitability of companies, ecological and human damage it causes?
What happens to the strategic objectives of our development models are not equality, freedom and dignity of a person, but the depth of reproduction and growing inequalities of wealth accumulation, or even a new form of slavery, such as debt and drugs on the younger generation?
In Chile, the students opted to fight
In Chile; the student movement has been committed to the fight against this process.
In our country, there is simply no guarantee that human rights education is a priority in our constitution since greater economic freedom, but the design of our educational system, which was intended to maintain and reproduce the neoliberal economic model imposed during the military dictatorship that began in 1973.
It is no coincidence that the rise in Chile, at least since 2010, a group of social movements, have come to question the development model that's all.
What happened is that people have realized that this model has been prescribed for more than 30 years has been able to deliver, and the difference has deepened, the head of the few profit at the expense of millions and millions of debt left.
Chile has one of the highest imbalances in the world. Sol foundation, a non-profit organization that carries out research into the world of work, according to data from Chile, the disparity between rich and poor has increased by 46 times since the 1980s.
Since the 1990s, economic growth in the production, was 80%, while workers' wages increased by only 20%. Some 46% of the population is less than the minimum wage (less than US $ 400 dollars) and salaried workers on two out of three people are below the poverty line earning.
It is true that inequality has increased in Chile since the neo-liberal policies put in place the fundamental rights and are now the province of the privileged few. Because they do not have enough money to live, staff forced to borrow from private banking to education, health, food, clothing and their families to fund basic services.
This reality is never in our macroeconomic policies 'high' the official said before the talks, there was no imbalance in education to overcome the unbearable, but it seems designed to rebuild and deepen it.
Education privatization
In the 1980s, in the midst of the military dictatorship and popular mandate, a subsidiary of the state was reduced to a mere role, powers and resources to education and other fundamental rights to transform the company into a profitable proposition to the market. Was abandoned public education and private education grew rapidly.
Today, public education is too little. State universities receive less than 15% of their budgets from the state, so that the families are forced to endure the bill (with a level of US $ 30,000 each), or getting into debt (which can be increased to 200% of the cost) by.
The private system to grow without regulation. Chile and other parts of the world financial investors to inject capital into the company this large and profitable.
As a result, Chile education is not only among the most expensive in the world, but the country also has one of the most segregated education systems. OECD report showed that the Chilean education consciously structured by social class.
Chile Education was created and maintained for the separation of social classes; that education rich and poor in favor of the bourgeoisie. Cheap labor to produce higher technical education, while private universities turn to the future managers of large companies. Everyone will be divided according to their capacity to pay, and the majority of the debt.
Privatization is intended not only to maintain social equality and social integration of public education as the space was destroyed. Likewise, critical citizens, thinking that our national reality and its injustice and educational institutions to produce an active part in the process of internal democratization of public education for the destruction.
What he tried to destroy the tools needed to provide educational opportunities that would be good students do not just professional, but its critics in big business at the university was for the mere automaton.
It gradually removed civic education in public schools. Through the history, philosophy, art and music to reduce the number of hours that our people have suffered a neoliberal-oriented education to show. It has been further reduced the political and social consciousness of the students.
Students, teachers require a paradigm shift
Civic education in our country, the construction of public institutions between 1960 and 1970, and was fundamental to our struggle.
After decades spent to strengthen the student politics, managed not only to the students of Chile in 2011 in a financially sound idea to improve the financing of public education, but at the same time, our education system and social inequality to deepen his understanding of ideological bias.
Teachers, staff and collect the rector and education, demand massively in the streets, they had a change in the paradigm of the Chilean model of education, and that's been a change in our society.
This paradigm shift is not enough to restore the constitutional guarantee of the right to education - and, therefore, this situation is a free public education to ensure quality of the integration of space - but basically, has defended the need for common sense back to the public sector, the transmission of knowledge in the creation of the democratic appropriation given.
Today a new generation of students to keep alive the spirit of rebellion of our ancestors, and that's why our continent, we support other struggles around, among other things, our Canadian brothers, who recently managed to restrain growth.
Our friends in Puerto Rico; Despite the difficult conditions of our friends in Colombia and under constant harassment and threats prove that the daily order of the day, to get an education that responds to the interests of the people there.
Dominican students to education requires that 4% of GDP; Ecuador is a student movement to establish autonomy and trying to keep the student co-government ideals of Cordoba; and protest that is 10% of GDP invested in education because of the Brazilian students.
And we, today imposed a dictator Augusto Pinochet against the free market model that Chilean students, human rights violations and to the tune of three years in prison to punish demonstrators who disrupt the school or aa bills occupying public squares or cross traffic.
Our vision for the future of education in which the processes of intercultural education, to a new post-capitalist which is committed to the integration of indigenous people, this approach works in harmony with nature and our first limited and responsible use of materials and resources to civilize the sovereign.
This approach is being developed, which is exactly what its own identity to the educational process in Latin America.
* Camille Vallejo is president of the University of Chile Student Federation. This is an edited version of his speech in September to the Global Student Leadership Summit. The whole speech is available here.
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