Letter from a teacher: Belén Esteban syndrome minds With strings like this that remain in this country called Spain, where increasingly choose borreguismo obscene figures to idolize:
As a teacher, the student questions I find most difficult to answer convincingly is about why we have to study things they seem unnecessary or absurd, such as history or geography. I have a clear what I bring to me, but there is every reason to study these things, I make them focus on the need for such disciplines to understand the world we live: the coordinates of space and time, that After all are those that deal Geography and history, help us to know the place we occupy in the world and understand where they come from all of our realities. That all this may seem strange and absurd, but many of the things we study are about real life and, like it or not affect them.
For example, you want to know why is your hand to a fellow who comes from Ecuador? Why speak the same language as you? Do you want to understand why a man, be born with the surname Bourbon, will be "king" and the English government will give a lot of money (which comes from taxes you pay more)? Why do they say about European masters in Brussels will impact - Much - in your life? All of that is geography. All that is history.
Some understand what I mean, some not. I do not wear the wrong questions, protests ... are kids. It's normal. Where I completely disarm and leave me with no answers is when I say all that I do not care. That what they want to know where Morocco, if they will not ever go. Know what kind of elections in Spain, if they have no intention of ever voting. Sliding them that a war in Iraq, half of Africa is dying of hunger or the European Union say "blah." If you do not even care about that, imagine how difficult it is making me interested in what lords did five centuries ago, very exciting for me to try to paint it.
And what I have far worse, is that attitude of pride in displaying their ignorance and shortsightedness. That attitude of "no use, I do not care. That which accounts and what you spend your life sucks. I want to play the Play / go shopping at the mall and now." Have it with me, I teach history, but also the teachers of language, biology, mathematics. The contempt for books, for art, for Culture, Science and ... is not so rare, and can me.
Lately this attitude is hotter than ever. We have a perfect embodiment Belén Esteban fortunate in that he knows nothing, wants nothing and brags about it. Bad Education, the rudeness and ignorance put on a pedestal by the day. Everyone applauded because she is "authentic" (whatever that means). I know many people who will like to see Stephen and it's funny, because there are all sorts of people to their public. Among them, the ones I draw attention to two types: people who have (or think you have) more education and sees it as an entertainment, even some as a consolation (I'm better than her), or those like her, who have seen the ignorance and poor education also can make you succeed in life and you should be proud of it. That scares me, that will spread and set an example to more fools, who believe that not knowing anything is great. That claim to be uncouth and uneducated to become politically correct and is well seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgDqZBlszo "Eh, I do not want anyone's help, I do not need help, milk," says Stephen in a time of four minutes of nonsense. "As I have not caught the industrial revolution-the-three noses I care" - an argument that could have used one of my worst students.
Anyway ... is big I am convinced that most of the public (and many of the tables) had no idea that the girl was getting to the bottom paw and beyond and laughed and clapped because they said the alderman.
Understand me: I am not criticizing people who do not know. I do not know much about so many things ... I do not think that has to be a source of shame for not having studied, not speaking correctly or have gaps in knowledge. What pisses me off is the opposite attitude, proudly display of ignorance and contempt for anything that smacks of wisdom. It hurts the contempt for education, in all senses. It hurts ... and gives me a pity that I die.
