2023-08-16 13:05:19
In a highly circulated sequence on social media, Javier Miley He stops in front of a blackboard that shows the state organization chart and takes off – one by one, with fury and contempt – the stickers that name eleven ministries, among them Environment, Science, Education and Health.
The sciencehe argues, is “something good from the private sector; nothing good came out of the public sector.” Public education fits only one word: “indoctrination.”
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In these bewildering hours, it’s good to counter the diatribes with a few elementary reminders, like that public education formed the three Nobel Argentine scientists (Bernardo Houssay, Federico Leloir and César Milstein) or that national science gave birth to achievements as relevant as the by pass coronarythe development of nuclear reactors with medical applications or the identification of the grandchildren of the disappeared through DNA techniques.
A journey that, if the electoral results are confirmed in October, will be seriously threatened by the reading anti-libertarian rightswhich has in its sights to privatize a system of 17 scientific organizations and more than 300 CONICET research institutes. The adjustment could be brutalremember the place Outskirts: In Argentina and in the region, investment in the sector is 70% from the public sector.
Milei affirmed that he will privatize the Conicet: the Ministries that he will remove and the names for his Cabinet
And mercy Arrived at the Casa Rosada, education would be optional, since “the issue of being obligatory is wanting to control human beings,” he justifies. His proposal is a system of vouchers that finances the demand (students) instead of the supply (schools).
The budget would be divided among the children of school age, to thus determine the value of the checks that each family would receive, which would decide which is the best institution -public or private- where to send them.
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In April, when Milei went public with that show, Daniel Filmus (former Minister of Education and current Minister of Science) recalled that “there is no country in the developed world” where the education It is not mandatory, and he assured that “those who present themselves as the new and modern were already defeated by Sarmiento in the 19th century”, when our country imposed free public education.
Defending it, he stated, “is one of the main consensus that Argentines have to achieve to consolidate an integrated and egalitarian country model.” Consensus that, after Sunday’s results, he is in unforeseen danger.
JL
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