{"id":565,"date":"2024-01-04T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:10:32","slug":"la-ley-de-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/la-ley-de-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln\u2019s Law\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The critical sense of education in Spain is merely a myth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without intending to do so, some time ago I was surprised to discover that the Spanish public university (SPU) boasts that it promotes critical spirit. Yet for some time, Spanish academics do not practice it. Quite the opposite in fact because they do not allow discrepancies, but need unanimities by voting to keep those who do not obey the majority quiet by identifying the majority with truth. It is much simpler for the majority to accept a simple lie than the complex truth because it is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they are being deceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Why? When you get people used to the culture or the philosophy of what matters is the majority, that everything is decided by voting, people tend to identify the majority with truth. This particularly applies when institutional propaganda is tele-broadcast from the status quo. You will get carrots if you obey, but a stick if you do not, and generally after voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been the case of the SPU for two decades, and with the culture that its students live, which is a totalitarian culture that alienates not only the individual, but also minorities. If you also discover how populist deans gain students\u2019 votes, then students delegates soon learn professional politicians\u2019 trickery. The cases of Zapatero, Casado and S\u00e1nchez will be made worse by students from today\u2019s delegations who, as adults, will become political party members after they have learned the vices practiced at university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you really think that this type of unanimous teachers who peer-wise apply such sect principles will encourage tolerance, critical sense, when they teach? That they will not indoctrinate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Human beings are beings of habit, customs. We are what we repeatedly do. You are fully aware of examples of ill psychopathic people who lie out of habit because they are used to lying. Normal people do not respect these individuals, but fear them if they hold a position of power. I do not know what education these psychopaths will transmit to their children. When one of them asks them: Dad, if you tell us we have to tell the truth, why do you lie?; or is the truth to be told or hushed up? I do not think that Machiavellian education is recommendable for children or youths, but for morally corrupt adults, although may be admired by some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet that is the way of things. Many Spanish academics at public universities today are sectarian, have to obey a dogma: that of the progressive majority. Perhaps you are wondering, can non-progressive majorities exist? Yes, that is possible, but I have not seen them in the last 20 years in Spain at neither my university nor outside it. The SPU is led by the so-called progressive people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you will find convinced and aware progressive people who are not ashamed to say what they think in their \u201cfamily\u201d. There are also \u201cunaware progressive people\u201d who have no moral, obey and initially keep quiet, but they are accustomed to keep quiet and obey, and act as pawns in the practical Leftwing outlook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today the SPU is filled to the brim with people who are aware and unaware progressive people, and looks more like a church where the principle is obedience to socialist\/separatist power that is not discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has not always been like this. Not when I was a university student (1973-1978), when the faculty and the whole university were full of not only progressive propaganda at the Valencia University General Study, but of manifestations, strikes and political agitation. Teachers\u2019 participation was minimum, or at least the explicit one was assumedly pursued. Student activism was important, but then Dictator Franco was in power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do we have now? Spain is an enormous pot in which so many are cooked like frogs in the tepid dictatorship of the socialist\/separatist government, where we vote, but do whatever they wish, those who abuse separation of powers, equality among Spaniards, and build up a debt that we had better be protected from when it bursts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both cases, the police and the army obey the government. What has changed? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the attitude of students, the bearers of authority, was to obey, go to class, and some studied more than others. Now authority lies in students\u2019 hands because they vote and are spoilt to suitably vote seeing that their vote interests populists who do business with their votes. They assess teachers with surveys, while the assumed academic authority, which is actually political, identifies teaching quality with surveys\u2019 quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

University students\u2019 national outcry of absenteeism is favoured by \u201chermetic\u201d classes (no risk for teachers; no need for students to attend them), positively evaluated in surveys, and penalises teachers, who encourage students being present in class by not facilitating digitised and \u201chermetic\u201d classes. In other words, encouraging absenteeism is considered to be teaching quality. So in the end, authority lies with students, whose delegates do business with populist power, their votes and their surveys. This is the fundamental change in classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Valencia Polytechnic University (UPV) where I work, between 1980 and 1990 we\nwere not taken for mugs when criticising academic power, and born-and-bred dissident leaders pursued us despite not being \u201cprogressive people\u201d then when I taught at the former School of Industrial Engineering, and when I published my views in the \u201cBiela\u201d magazine of the students delegation. Power pursued you if you criticised something inappropriate, but the students delegation spent more time studying, going to class, and exams were much more demanding. They did not have the authority they have today. Between 1991 and 2003, I taught at the School of Telecommunications, and I did not write because bringing up children and working did not leave me any time to give my views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Zapatero\u2019s government came to power in 2004, the change turned the ideological board over completely to the left. All SPUs became more socialist, and the university\u2019s pursuit of dissidents intensified. I had to defend myself in courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once more, the surprise discovery of the perverse effects of educational laws, the use of evaluation metrics and their perversions, resuscitated in 2021, my literary dissidence, and wanting to diffuse what happens at university and them not knowing. Not even those who live in it. As I mentioned in my previous column \u201cAcademic lawfare\u201d, nothing seems as much like the Spanish society as the public university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Lincoln, a North American lawyer and politician, was the 16th US president from 1861 until he was murdered in 1865. He was a great man who knew the influence that education had on people. Please look for and read, if you have not already done so, Lincoln\u2019s letter to his son\u2019s teacher\u201d. It really is worth your while. All educators and all parents should know it. Without actually intending to, in the sentence below we can see that Lincoln predicted what I dare to baptise as Lincoln\u2019s Law, which might affect the next generation in Spain. Lincoln\u2019s line of thought was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe philosophy of the schoolroom of one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For obvious reasons, I have not been so lucky to have spoken with Abraham Lincoln, but his argument can be explained. It is assumed that governing elites have been to university, and the culture that they live in classrooms is that they adopt when they become politicians, those whose live as politicians. In \u201cDeceived youths, used and unhappy\u201d, which can be read at https:\/\/www.disidenciadigital.com, they know what I think about our young university students and their inability to lead not only others, but also themselves. https:\/\/www.disidenciadigital.com<\/a>  saben lo que pienso de nuestros j\u00f3venes universitarios, y su incapacidad no solo para dirigir a otros, sino a ellos mismos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Lincoln said, they, especially student delegates (and I say), will be politicians and will apply the \u201carts\u201d learned in classrooms and in student delegations. With a bit of luck, two things might happen: one, and I certainly hope so, is that I am wrong; two, I am not wrong and Lincoln\u2019s Law comes true. Be ready those who survive to tell their story for the specimen politicians we will have ahead of us. Politicians today will act like nuns compared to those to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Lincoln said, they, especially student delegates (and I say), will be politicians and will apply the \u201carts\u201d learned in classrooms and in student delegations. With a bit of luck, two things might happen: one, and I certainly hope so, is that I am wrong; two, I am not wrong and Lincoln\u2019s Law comes true. Be ready those who survive to tell their story for the specimen politicians we will have ahead of us. Politicians today will act like nuns compared to those to come. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El sentido cr\u00edtico de la educaci\u00f3n en Espa\u00f1a es un mito. Hace tiempo que descubr\u00ed, sin buscarlo, dej\u00e1ndome sorprender, que la universidad p\u00fablica espa\u00f1ola presume de que fomenta el esp\u00edritu cr\u00edtico, pero que los acad\u00e9micos espa\u00f1oles hace tiempo que no lo practican, al contrario, no admiten la discrepancia, necesitan unanimidades, votaciones para callar a quien … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociedad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disidenciadigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}