{"id":8003,"date":"2013-07-22T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/07\/22\/inverted-education\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:02:00","slug":"inverted-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/inverted-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverted Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cIn a world which is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false\u201d<\/em> Guy Debord.<\/p>\n

Chilean students have returned to the \u201cparos\u201d and \u201ctomas\u201d of universities, colleges and schools. That is to say, to strikes and occupations. They have returned to the mass \u201cmarches\u201d that made them the focus of the media in 2011. There are no statistics for it, but Chileans are undoubtedly the most pissed off students in the world. Why? <\/p>\n

20 January 2011. President Pi\u00f1eira (MA and PhD. in Economics from Harvard University) presents the Law for Quality and Equality in Education. Basically, a pay rise for directors. Students watch the cost of fees and matriculation rise each year. To have university level studies in one of the countries with one of the greatest socio-economic inequalities means, for a middle class family, going into debt. Not to mention the lower classes or lower middle class. They erupt. The immense majority take to the streets, they organise themselves and a large part of the country expresses solidarity with them. <\/p>\n

The roots of the problem are buried in the depths of the era of the dictatorship, above all with the \u201cOrganic Constitutional Law on Education\u201d, passed by Pinochet a day before leaving power, that led to the growth of private universities like high rise mushrooms. <\/p>\n

The source of these educational problems lies in the United States and their last presidents, both Bush (MA in Business Administration at Harvard) and Obama (Magna cum laude at Harvard), have deepened the elitisization of education. The model has been implemented in other places, such as in the Mexico of Felipe Calder\u00f3n (MA in Public Administration at Harvard) and attempts are being made in others, like Spain (remember the Universities Organic Law applied in 2001 by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar, Doctor Honoris Causa of the International University of Florida). The mission of those in power is to reinforce the loop: degrees will become like aristocratic titles, handed down from (rich) father to son. It is a condemnation of the non-upper classes; who without education will never get out of the circle. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s June 2013. The students return to the streets. But the marches, \u201ctomas\u201d and stoppages have changed. There are no visible leaders and the students are less united. There is a reason for this mood, even if it is relative. The general elections are approaching and all the candidates are promising free education. <\/p>\n

What does art do in this situation? A valuable book, \u201cEn Marcha\u201d [1], has just been published, that analyses these proposals. The answer is not a lot. There are a few exceptions, like the initiatives of the students at the University of Chile, or the action \u201c1.800 hours for Education\u201d, that consisted in running for this length of time around the Palacio de la Moneda (1.800 million dollars are needed to finance education for one year).<\/p>\n

The work \u201cSala Invertida\u201d is for me the most representative. Students of the Catholic University in Valpara\u00edso (Diego Bravo, Marcelo Arenas, Felipe Mayorga, Gabriel Holzapfel and Jaime Casas) turned one of their classrooms, visible from the street, upside down. They wrote Debord\u2019s phrase on the blackboard and threw the Constitution of 1980 in the bin. The message is clear. <\/p>\n

Investing in education can\u2019t be understood as the money that a father invests so that his child studies and passes (\u201cson, study as this is costing me a lot of money\u201d). It\u2019s unacceptable that the cost of education has hit the roof. It\u2019s unacceptable that teaching is back to front. This is the inversion: it\u2019s impossible for those who most need education in order to be able to escape their socio-economic situation to access it, while the red carpet is unfurled for those who need it least. And the problem of inverted education is that it can\u2019t be reversed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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