Documentary: “La Educación Prohibida” – D11

After a long and exhausting week, we decided to watch a documentary called “La Educación Prohibida”. We haven’t finished it, but it is about the traditional educational system and what it does to the students. Do we really learn and get educated on school? Is there another way to learn? A better one? A student-centered one? Now a day, most of the teachers don’t know their students, so how could they decide which method is best for their learning? We are in a culture in which we expect to receive everything, specifically knowledge, from someone else and always wait for an authority to tell us how things are and how they should be. We have stopped thinking! Is that sustainable or by any means good for mankind? We have to create spaces were people actually think; places were the teacher is only to help in the process of learning but not to teach what he or she wants or was told to “teach”. Instead of getting worried about what they would “teach” us and what to think, they should be worried about teaching us how to think by ourselves. It was an excellent end to the week.

*Here is the link to watch the documentary: La Educación Prohibida