The school and
university education provided in European and American educational institutions
—democratic and Western ones— is far below the real demands students must face.
I am sure that with the current education these students receive, our students,
within ten years, most of them will play out their own tragedy. Their own
failure. It is inevitable because the education they receive is a systematic
preparation for personal, professional, and social failure. Also, for romantic
failure, a fact that almost nobody takes seriously today, yet it is much more
important than it seems. Because love and work are the two most crucial
experiences of human life.
In this
context, where education imparted by postmodern democratic states falls far
short of the actual education needed to face the complexity of life, Spain is
not an exception but the norm identifying all Western democracies. Not by
chance, democracy established after Franco's regime has introduced Spain into
an international and postmodern context, for better and for worse. It has
dissolved, in practice and in law, our country into a Europe whose aim is
absolute idealism, meaning the vanishing and extinction of a political society
— and its state regime: democracy — due to incompatibility with reality.
This vanishing to which I appeal is directly related to a ...
