Each of us is a seed, an individual who has latent potential to germinate and result in a leafy tree, perfect, certainly, but whose roots delve into solid humanistic values; flexible, more trunk strengthened by the care of their training. The fact leads us, however, to meet a man bonsai: plant, arrested in its development by repeated pruning and the finest ties, yet stronger than the wire, twisted with grace and will of those who understand the art to shape and form partnerships with the desired direction, devoid of cultural compost to facilitate their full growth. In terms of thinking all is said, that's clear. However, the literature finds many leading thinkers, who have already sketched lines of discernment whose validity transcends generations, that based concepts have been analyzed and the common man today can access through your own intuition and reasoning, but unfortunately often fleeting paroxysms of light. The average human being who lives only, not mostly interested in the justification of freedom, the existence of the property. Occasionally sees some operational definition, tentative, and after a few minutes to leave because it is not useful in day to day. There may be convicted for it: he is alone and nobody helps deepen their natural instinct for the understanding of things. Can not form an opinion full of nothing, now that alternatives to the counts are low, shallow and filtered by the system in which he lived.
"The Republic" Plato's "Nicomachean Ethics" of Aristotle, "The Prince" Machiavelli, "The Praise of Folly" by Erasmus of Rotterdam, "Leviathan" of Hobbes, "The Spirit of laws "of Montesquieu and" The Social Contract "of Rousseau, to name a few examples, are books that I got on my own. During my school years, works like these not only were not included in basic reading, but their very titles were rare or no time mentioned. In Chile almost nobody reads the classics, are omitted from the school no more, and few miss. Yes prominently in educational programs, however, magical realism, the apotheosis of the third world literature suburb, in short, a culture of mediocrity, the ne plus ultra and fortified stronghold.
I find it difficult not to recognize, or at least suspicious of all this a systematic screening, expressly made the most egregious "fertilizer of thought" to be found in the lyrics universal. What's happening? Nothing new under the sun. Two thousand five hundred years of experience plutocracy in the West provide sufficient experience to the ruling class that it knows exactly the enzymes that promote companies to challenge the order they imposed.
Young people studying for the day to day, learning is disposable, saving the pitfall of the note is. On the other hand, schools do not teach children to learn, to understand why it is necessary reading and personal training. While there is no drastic change at this level, and the system continues to restrict access to lines of thought, action is just and intellectually motivating catalyst that can make every family in homes. I believe that this space is essential to supplement education in those areas where falente. Texts like those above are an encouragement to the reason for the forging of ideas and the creation of an adult with discretion and sound concepts. It should encourage critical reading, analysis, discussion of the contingent and not bury our heads to reality. It is necessary that future generations do not just live, but to form an opinion on the various aspects of life itself. Culture may sponsor, good book, and ultimately, the freethinking.
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