the best places to educate a
child that you see in the photograph though
may seem the scenario of a
natural catastrophe or the set of a
apocalyptic movie
it really is a project that is
call playground new york city that is
on governors island in the new city
york and what it wants is to generate
spaces for the game and for
exploration that are safe for
build and to take risks
spaces like this are obvious
paradises for fun and for
creativity but they are also places
for experimentation and for
learning a learning that is active
a practical learning a learning
which is experiential and above all a
learning that is very fun and is
that what is behind a project
like this and many other projects
alternative education is the idea of
generate stimulating spaces that are
rich in impossible experiences but
that the children generate those
experiences and through
situations that create extract the
skills and knowledge that
Later they will accompany him
throughout his life and will be of great
utility
well this is what we might call
cross learning
that is, when in a certain
situation we learn something that in another
very different context later
is very useful to us and we put in
practice although this may result
a little more familiar when we talk about
the early stages of development as
in this case
the good news is that this does not happen
throughout our life
however for some reason as
what are we doing doing the biggest
we load on the institutions
formal education such as school or
college
the responsibility of transmitting the
knowledge and skills that
we need for our life
professional
well in my case this has not always been
so I work in a center that
devotes to the promotion of
social entrepreneurship and help
social entrepreneurs and many of the
skills and resources that
you needed envy of yours has not been obtained
of the university and the school the
obtained from the place is perhaps a bit
less obvious and I’m going to put some
examples as I said I work my
work is closely linked to
entrepreneurship and the place where I
learned what it means to learn and
everything that entails
possibly this what you see in the
photography is the corner of one of the
orchard of a small one of a project that
we ride among many friends in
a small town of Extremadura does
years and that was linked was
related among many other things with
organic food production
good this experience the most intense
of my life has brought countless
vital lessons but of course I
brings an experiential experience that
has been fundamental at the time of
work with these entrepreneurs and in
general when it comes to carrying out
any project of my work
another one of the needs of the
qualities that my work requires is the
ability to work as a team and in
complex structures I work in a
center that is part of a network
world
well the place where I improved
learned what or how to work in
network how to work in structures
complex is this what you see in the
photography is a social center
self-managed
well then a center of these
features welcomes numerous
collective numerous people who
they link their relationship with the space of
lots of different ways of aie
that a recycling cooperative
furniture with fellow migrants
until Maria who has participated in a
collective that is denounced to what
dedicates to denouncing the barbarism of the
detention centers for foreigners
or Juan who simply attends classes
theater and yoga
however with all this complexity
centers like this have known has known
manage it in a very effective way and
In general, social movements have
developed working mechanisms in
network that are very innovative and very
efficient and very effective
another example this the french alps the
Most beautiful place where you already learned two
things that are fundamental to
work in any kind of
organization that is the ability to
delegate and trust when one is
climbing up a mountain
he and his companion of rope of a
team and everyone has some
responsibilities and some tasks that are
fundamentals and you have to trust that
the other person is going to carry them out
correct
that is the only way to get
reach the top or lower it and
made his life depends on it
Finally, as I said, I work in a
in a center that is part of a network
international with which touches me
work a lot with other teams
nationalities and therefore the
intercultural skills are pretty
essentials
apart obviously from the knowledge of
languages to illustrate the place or in the
experience that has best conveyed to me
that kind of skills has brought a
chilling document I’m sorry it ‘s
the first time also in scoop that
leaves the living room of my parents’ house
and it is this axis of photography that is me and
is the photograph of the mijares yearbook
Jul the year I passed communication from
clearing in a family
United States is for experience
totally immersive in a in an environment
with customs and with very codes
different from mine
you can imagine that the institutes of
a the corridors of the American institute
they are like the movies and one does not have
more remedy than learning to adapt
interpret those codes well what
I want what I want to convey to you
these examples is that throughout
our life through all of our
experiences of our experiences
vital
we continue forming we follow
learning our cognitive process
our brain does not have a button
on and off when we enter
a classroom does not turn on when we open a
book manual turns us on and then it
turns off
also how much more more when more
we immerse ourselves in those in that
more solid formative experience and
profound will be the knowledge that
let’s extract from it be for fun
or the pleasure of the game is for the passion
activist or by a mere instinct of
survival as in the case of
mountaineering or the corridors of
American institute and this if what
we think it has important repercussions
when it comes to understanding our training
and our education because now
we will only be understanding that we
we form when we invest our
time our money our effort
in a in a formal educational program
but we can resignify another type
of experiences that previously
and I consider this as training
so I like it the most because it’s
a kind of weapon against a phrase
surely he had heard of our
parents our mothers who look at
stop wasting time and get to
study because what I want to say
is that maybe those moments in the
that we’re supposed to be losing the
weather
are the moments when they are
making a better investment in our
that term future also will
we like to repeat our parents and
with this
with this I do not mean that the
transmission of essential knowledge
our professional training
Of course, it is , however, each
more time in our society the
society that we have lived
is less fundamental what you see in
the slide is the qualities the
abilities
according to a recent survey in which
they asked hundreds of responsible
of hiring companies what are
the skills and qualities you are looking for
an employee if you look at any of
the first positions appear a
technical skills appears work in
team verbal skills creativity
from Fedra to the fifth or sixth
position appears any kind of
skill that we can qualify
minimally technical and even the
seventh position does not appear what they are
the technical skills related to
work is more in fact possibly
many of you and you are
you had to write your
résumé recently and surely it
they will have said works read that is
important to include those experiences that
beyond your resume
academic of our experience
professional well this is very simple
this is included because they really are
indicators of increased capacity
more preparation to perform
our work although those experiences
that reflects 6
apparently have nothing to do with
that job and this denotes a deficiency
in the education system he also tells us
one a rather paradoxical deficiency
and said it’s paradoxical because although
certainly the education system should not
should not respond exclusively to
nothing to the needs of the tissue
economic
the model of school that still reigns
the model the education system is a
clear victory of capitalism
industrial 19th century the model of
school went to that genre to
answer
and to feed the needs of the
industrial Revolution
however we are no longer in the 19th century
and the capital needs have
changed
however, we still have the same
school model therefore results
quite paradoxical that not even
be useful to the interests that
officiated now to finish could
give a dissertation on how I think
what should be that educational system and
although he certainly considered that the
educational system must evolve and
must incorporate learning models
much more practical and much more
effective and experiential there is another idea that
I find it more interesting and it’s the
think about how we can generate
learning that includes our
own contexts and our own
interests
I think we should give ourselves an opportunity
so that each one of us learns to learn
its way
we must generate contexts rich environments
in potential experiences but we should
also allow each person to be
who defines their experiences
I believe in the end that we have to
trust in the ability to manage
each our learning and taking
the reins of our vital formation
thank you very much
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