The vocation is not taken care of in Spain, neither to train nor to select
Human conduct depends on three main sources and in this order of priority: emotion, desire and knowledge. Vocation is the interest that people feel from within and they use it for a given lifestyle or profession. People desire by observing others, but we need emotion to pay attention, to know something new, to learn. Attention is activated by motivation. The more something moves us or is different or prestigious, the more likely it will draw our attention. We need to train attention and memory to remember that we paid attention to something; the skill to reproduce model conduct. These capacities develop with good education, which values effort, attention, language, images, memory. Education’s mission is to discover what everyone is good for and to prepare them to master this aptitude. Plato, Spinoza and Bandura thought along these lines about part of this matter.
Spain has faced eight laws on education in 43 years. Each one has worsened the previous one due to PSOE-PP disagreements and surrendering to separatists. Today’s sinister government makes Spaniards confront one another by attacking state-assisted schooling and eliminating Spanish as the working language, which in fact destroys national unity. As unconstitutional short cuts so that students from separatist areas ignore Spanish, they are indoctrinated against Spain using their own language. Conversely, those in favour of independence back budgets that lead to ruin. How can we wish to have acceptable education when it is the very object of the political exchange with people who want to destroy Spain? After this continuous outrageous situation, public education is pitiful: no effort, nothing demanded; it is politicised; teachers are badly selected, have no guaranteed vocation, are not controlled, and some indoctrinate. Very few students make the effort, read or develop critical sense: the functional illiterate. Instead of preparing them for life, they are deceived as if living in a “happy world” with effortless passes, they make no effort, take a victim’s moral, by gender and unpatriotic indoctrination, and they have no critical capacity. The Orwellian PSOE calls this educational totalitarianism “progress”. Educational deficiencies are the main reason for having so much more unemployment than our European partners.
Without making effort or having the will, talent disappears. Education must awaken vocations, detect capacities; instead it focuses too much on quantitative aspects. It competes for appearance reasons and not for knowing. The success fallacy hides lowering levels. Students, who have been mixed up, confuse the means to evaluate with the purpose of learning. Talent is not put to good use. Educating is developing individuality, but also thinking about others, cooperating. The way Primary and Secondary Education teachers are selected is deplorable; lack of rigour, no vocation ensured, ideologised through local languages. Once selected, no-one evaluates them, and the continuously lowering level conceals general mediocrity. Arousing vocations in Spain is a miracle because many teachers lack them. The education system even distorts vocations. It is aberrant that someone with a doctor’s vocation is excluded from studying medicine because of a few decimal points in absurd exams taken to access university, which have not been adapted to the degrees that students wish to study. No-one pays attention to vocation in Spain.
Excellence, the habit of doing things well, follows vocation because vocational people always improve by correcting and polishing details. Craft workers, doctors, engineers, chefs, teachers, and all professions, achieve excellence after identifying vocation. Many civil servants lack service vocation, and we have all evidenced this anomaly.
The economic model has dismantled the manufacturing fabric. Everything is purchased in Asia. Very little is manufactured and unemployment increases. Universities are full of students who only want a degree. The number of unemployed university students grows despite us needing good manual professionals; the best degree holders emigrate because they are offered no opportunities. Vocational training should be better connected to the business world and to train good professionals technically and ethically. None of this is achieved. Seek an electrician, a plumber, a carpenter and you will discover this is true. Vocational people also exist in politics that serve the State, and opportunists take advantage of the State. In our case, many politicians lack the moral minimum or proven professional reputation.
demostrada.
Post published in Las Provincias