dimarts, 13 de maig del 2014

Education and Social Development/Quality of life By Yadiar Julián Márquez Sánchez

Education.

Talking about education and social development of the human person, lead us to a dynamic context about the action of educating towards individual, familiar and social development. In other words, Education must teach a person that their individual capabilities2 must be in constant equilibrium and relationship with everybody else, furthermore, this equilibrium gives as result such human and social development.
Education is, according to our judgement, the action and courage by which all persons may be able to get a better quality of life, and doing so, a good social development. “It is the development and permanent training of all potentialities, competences and capabilities of man as a human, conscious and free person. It is the embellishment3 of the person at their prime of the spaces in body and spirit, and as consequence of this transfiguration, an impact of the embellishment of their familiar, community, social, political, work, academical, etc., environment.”

It is in Education where a transformation in society can be made, and as such, to enrich the culture and to attain a true development with Ethics and suitability. There exist many points of view to watch and analyze institutions: Education and Social Development, Capitalism, Socialism, Comunism, Marxism, Positivism, etc., all of which defend their position about Education and Quality of Life. Whether good or bad, all of these positions look for the well being and perfectionism of men in society, the fine, just development, leveled and sustainable about what man does, coexists, produces and lives.



Education and Development Dilemma.
All these chapters, along with their indicators, express the utopy of a good personal and social development, but it exists a big dilema to understand more profoundly the concept of education and development.
Personal and social well-being are reflected in the happiness of the same man, and it is in this equilibrium and well-being where such feeling is expressed. Modernization, technology, big cities, politics, are not reflecting such response, and before such dilema, the concept of development expressed in family, organisms, culture, organization, nation, civilization, world, globalization systems and microsystems, etc., is misunderstood and confused. In that situation I say: What situation of man, or what social environment of man is considered as the achievement for development?, I do not know, what I do see and hear when I get off a plane: a huge city like a deafening turbine, that generates global warming, so technified and developed. A place where the persons are not persons anymore, and they have become individuals that only live for themselves. I see that they have forgotten the most essential part of being: “Living and look for the happiness of the community”.
Before such image, I recall myself in the same plane, when it flies at the highest, passing over many communities, and in such a show, I manage to see some poor towns and places that happen to get lost in the great dimension of the green or golden color, reflected by the vast dimensión of forgotten fields. Those towns, places or communities, how would they understand social development?
Forgotten communities, where migration has become part of their culture, where cosmos is still a fundamental part in their daily life. Small and poor towns so far away from technology and modernity, where there still exists the family value, fraternity, common help when the food becomes scarce, the sense of life, the respect and care for nature, a tradition that identifies them, and a set of values that makes them unique and different. Them, how would they understand social development? Them, have they lost equilibrium and have they forgotten living and looking for happiness?
I do not know, with this small reflection I recognize that education can be that hinge that may take towns and cities to find that equilibrium for a just social development. We still do not know what the city is lacking, or what that small community is lacking so they can reach that harmony and happiness. What I am sure of is, that an educated government would have a clearer sight about what to look for for the community. An illiterate government, poor in terms of education, would take the people to a social and productive underdevelopment . In conclusión, we can say that education must take the person, the community or the country into a social development within the frame of Ethics and suitability; living aside Ethics in development is to take man himself to a de-personalization, and therefore, to a senseless community away from what is looking for, equilibrium and perfection.


Finally, we offer to you a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd1Kmjs7NE

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2 The capability of a human person must be understood as a way to emphasize capabilities and to reach social development.
3 This term we can explain as a Good Deed, well done that produces some good which in turn is translated into an existing reality (Victor García Hoz).

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