Ética de Urgencia | PARTE 4 | La Educación |

University-level education has changed, especially the way you research. Now you can search for a bibliography on anything you want online. Of course, you can also use a screen instead of a blackboard and follow classes remotely. But these are merely tools; I don't think the real problem that new technologies pose for university professors

is how to keep the spirit of inquiry alive, which is what they were interested in developing during their undergraduate studies. In any case, the greatest transformation is experienced by children. Before, children went to school to learn about subjects they did n't master at home, such as geography, grammar, history, literature, and music. All knowledge came through

the school. Teaching, in general, consisted of informing children about things they didn't know. Children arrived at school unaware of the truths about death, sex, ambition, or political crime, and these were gradually revealed to them. Nowadays, with television and the internet, the priority can no longer be to inform, but rather to guide students through the

labyrinth of information they are constantly bombarded with. So, education can no longer focus on... To inform, if you don't have to do guidance work, the educator is increasingly a kind of compass to navigate a flow of information where the trivial, the necessary, the important, the false, and the true are all mixed together.

Children now have to be educated to learn to distinguish the quality of these materials because what is clear is that children are going to be immersed in the internet; there's no going back. So it makes no sense to protect them from what will be their habitat only to force them to listen to their grandmother. So we are obliged