The Chilean students have a beautiful leader - they are leading the fight for quality education for all. The country is in upheaval and the government is on its knees. As she says: "We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.
"Why do we need education? To make profits. To make a business? Or to develop the country and have social integration and development? Those are the issues in dispute."
This is the message we need to send in the UK to a government that in education has put a price on everything and values nothing other than profit. It has also probably inadvertently created a system more expensive for students and taxpayers in its crazed pursuit of a US style higher education 'market'.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment