¿La enseñanza universitaria debe ser memorística?
Por: Fernando Alejandro León Avelar
One day, I had the opportunity to listen to a student who said that to graduate from the French race had to have a huge memory.
In the first instance will be to understand the humor of the scene, then more properly define what is meant by higher education and eventually shed light on who is more than the latter.
First, try to give free space to good sense and reason, principles inevitable for all men and all civilizations, in order to analyze the educational crisis of the contemporary university teaching.
Indeed, it is to achieve the maximum prevailing spirit, the great souls that construction of human knowledge, we were left a legacy as the vestige of a civilization that knew how to develop critical thought and creative imagination.
is important to note that the following remarks are intended to be general and performative. So it would be necessary to further study and careful to point out the conditions of each specific area of academic research.
However, it is contradictory that even in the most conservative and traditional areas of academia, as is the case of letters and specifically-language teaching there is a general tendency to refute the perfection of the spirit, this tendency becomes clear when considering a storage unreasonable, contrary to every principle of science and all true continuous search of knowledge and understanding the world.
Second, recognize that memorization is contrary to irrational thinking, the best spirit and the desire to know to successfully reach the right result. This paradigm is often linked to ignorance and inability to deal effectively with some knowledge, to build a critical society should be take the liberty to judge and allow the fixing of concepts is the result of the recurrence and affirmation, not of the mechanical and monotonous repetition aloud of knowledge that will eventually forgotten.
add that in the case of languages, these are necessary for the understanding of ancient books (ie, an approach to the sages of yore and their works), while they contribute to building the good sense, but eloquence is obtained as a result of continued study and careful reading, not of the agglutination rote repetition and abrupt names and dates without any understanding. Similarly, no learning are transmitted by telepathy, a concept must be secured through practice and use, this is how you get to the mastery of a language. Spread
reading because this enables the dialogue with the great minds of yesteryear, then let the absurd repetition of data and concepts without any thematic thread for the cockatoos, parrots and parakeets with the spirits who cling consistently mediocre paradoxical model, outdated and no real application.
Finally, do not forget that it is imagination that makes things worth reading, if educators are unable to promote search good spirit among its students, or if teachers are not skilled at awakening the imagination, even the highest human virtues seem unworthy of cultivation.
For the wise builder, buildings that only an architect custom developed and eventually tend to be ever more beautiful and more orderly, then let the architect of the reason he developed his expertise and does not consent to the meanness of spirit fools and fools transform a reflective and quality education in a stupefying education, mediocre and memorization.
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Last edited: Wednesday November 18, 2009
Does university education should be rote?
Fernando Avelar Alejandro León
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