laws
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nothing is permanent
except the change and there and today in the
time that we are living
you can rarely check the
reality of this phrase for example the
human knowledge
It took twice the first time
doubled it took one thousand seven hundred
fifty years
today knowledge is doubled
practically every five years
imagine also how they have changed by
example cars cars
imagine what they were like 50 years ago and how
are today including cars and
cars that today move with energy
electric or that are even handled by
themselves
remember phones as they have
changed from bricks to
smartphones that we have today
in day
imagine the amount of changes that have
happened in the few years in the years
most recent we’ve had
simply the social networks of
internet that 30 years ago were
nonexistent and that today more than 70
millions of Mexicans use and the
growth has been exponential
just two years ago only the
they used roughly 30 million
Mexicans in the next years 100%
of the population or practically the
100% of the population will use the
social networks
and while we live in this world that
everything is changing instead a great
speed by the speed of change
technological and we have these examples and
many more
education is still pretty much
the same as 50 years ago the majority
of the schools in mexico the most
of the schools in our country continue
teaching how we taught 50 ago
years a teacher who gives information
students who receive passive
people who memorize that they are left
mechanical tasks
that is to say an entire educational system
structured through the
accumulation of knowledge and
memorization aligned with processes
industrial production or already
they were far behind and today we continue
educating like that instead of educating for the
freedom and for creativity for
skills and knowledge that
require in the twenty-first century to leave
one side memorization to move to
that children girls and young people
learn to learn learn to discern
learn to reason learn to
differentiate what matters
of what is not important that more
beyond mechanical tasks do
research works to be able
learn to reason learn if what
fundamental of the skills of
Spanish and English language of the
mathematics but also the
importance of the arts and everything that
can trigger that creativity and the
formation of the freedom to live of
responsible way in a democracy
and precisely precisely that
transformation is what we are
doing with the famous educational reform
surely all of you have heard
talk about it but it may be
distant as something abstract conflictual
since those who do not want to lose
privileges have put resistance to
this reform but at the bottom of that is
treats this reform of how finally
we leave behind an educational model that
It has been more than 50 years since everything
others is changing and we leave a
memorization side to learn to
learn to educate reiterated for the
freedom and for creativity and that that
sounds very easy is the change more
important that our country can do
now and into the future
If in Mexico we managed to do this
educational transformation
surely we will be with
running a successful country in the 21st century
who will be able to compete and succeed with whom
wherever and under any
circumstances beyond what happens
outside of our territory
and that is precisely why this was
the first reform that the
president peña grandson and that’s why
also the one that he himself said that
it is the most important of all
of course to do this
transformation is complex and
it requires making a very profound change
so that we can impact the classroom
a different way and transform what
we look for what is education and
preparation of our children and of
our young people to achieve that great
transformation four are required
big changes
the first is how we have better
teachers and teachers in all of mexico
since I had the honor of being
Secretary of Education
I decided that although my office is a
very pretty office is practically a
museum where he dispatched from what was
the desk of jose vasconcelos
first secretary of education and great
intellectual in the 20s and that I
I really like all the work he did
there I decided that I did not want to be a
secretary who will stay in his
desk waiting for the report
Some collaborator wanted to go out to
tour the country to travel the
schools to talk and to see the eyes to
the teachers and teachers of mexico
to know your problems so
direct to meet the students
know the reality of schools and
so I’ve visited 23 to four
schools per week like today we’re
also here in a school and in those
processes
I have seen that the vast majority of
teachers and teachers of mexico
they are teachers and teachers who wake up
very early to arrive on time to their
classes are teachers and teachers who
they suffer vibrate and live with their students
they are teachers and teachers who take
time to his family to prepare the
classes of the day yes
feels that rob hours for the purpose of
week to continue preparing and
try to be better
something that he has learned from the teachers and
of the masters of mexico is that being
teacher is not a job anymore if it is not
an absolute vocation of visa without
However, it had to be recognized that in
structure of our system
public education that by the way is
one of the five largest in the world
with 34 million students 2 million
teachers and more than 260 thousand schools at
long and wide across the country
had to recognize said that the
teachers and teachers not Mexico
they were having the opportunity to be able
Make your career from merit
own
unfortunately throughout the
years in our country took root
practices such as sale and inheritance
of squares and that way is how
teachers and many of the teachers and
teachers got their job or that
I was passing a teacher and a magician
teacher they wanted to be directors of their
school or its supervising directors in
first place had to spend a lot
time someone young could not get to
a position like that and secondly
they should have had some kind
of leverage with the union or with some
politician or with the bureaucracy
unfortunately, that’s how it worked
our system and it is one of the
explanations of why little had
changed and evolved and precisely
what educational reform does is
break with this dynamic today to be
master teacher in mexico must do
a contest and only come and go
who have shown that they have the
better knowledge and the best
abilities
if today a teacher wants to be a director or
director has to compete and win
your place and today is something this process of
fundamental change is something that is already
happening a few weeks ago I
I met with a group of normalistas del
warrior status normalistas that already
they did their exam to enter and be
teacher
and one of them a very smart young man
from the normal of equal
he told me that his grandfather had been
teacher his dad was a teacher and now he
I was going to be a teacher but the difference
is that her grandfather has given her the
his dad’s square but his dad is no longer
he could see to give to him for reform
educational
however the contest and he won
that square on its own merit and that’s what
he was feeling much more proud of
who got to be a teacher for his
knowledge and for its merit and not
because his father had given him a
plaza in coahuila
I was also with a young teacher
normalist that is going to be called estrus that
he told me that for many years his
dad was saving so that he
I could buy a place and the
educational reform and obviously no longer
I could buy your place
however he submitted to the exam and
showed that he had the skills and
the knowledge and today he earned his
place for its merit which also what
It makes us feel very proud and
guarantee that he is a teacher that is going to
teach children and girls well
from Mexico
I was also recently in zapopan in
jalisco where a young teacher of 30
years could be director because contest
and she won her place and what she told me
It is this would have been unthinkable and
impossible
before the educational reform before
I would have had to wait 15 20 25
years to get to this position and
must have had some kind of lever
to give me this address
today I won it and at 30 years old I am a
dynamic young teacher who wants to take
forward to your school is the
transformation that is being achieved
do in the teachers and teachers of
mexico to make them better and we can
break with the old structure of a
authoritative school of a school
bureaucratic and from a school where
it was memorized and we took the step that the
boys and girls learn to learn
the second great transformation
it has to do with the
school how do we transform the
organization of schools
so that creativity can flourish
so that we give them greater autonomy of
management and teachers and teachers and
the directors can take forward the
energy together with mothers and
parents and students of
creative schools take away cargo
bureaucratic give them the accompaniment
pedagogical that require
in short in a few words how
reorganize the for to reiterated to break with
that bureaucratic school and have
creative schools that teach for the
freedom and innovation and that is being
doing through a program that is
call the school to the center but
It is also very important to take out
to the schools of the backwardness in which
find in terms of infrastructure
today I can tell you that
unfortunately and this is something that a
everyone hurts a lot for example 11
percent of the country’s schools do not
they have bathrooms or 10 percent do not
they have light their giants would have been
impossible to transform this reality
because we just did not have the
information
today also thanks to this
transformation we have it and there is a
program called schools at 100
that is investing 50 billion of
additional pesos that is 2.5 billion
of additional dollars to fix 33
thousand schools and leave them in a state of
dignity
Today there are schools that are already
transforming and when one visited them
see in the face of girls and boys
the happiness of having bathrooms to have
water to have light and how the
installation transforms them worthy
Quality of education
the third great transformation has
what to see precisely in how we change
the pedagogical model that we have today
how do we replace this this model
mechanical focused on memorization
to develop a new model in
where you learn to learn where the
children learn to discern learn to
reason can differentiate what
matter what I care about where
let’s include how we are going to do it in the
curriculum
the social emotional skills that
before it was thought that they developed in
the house they did with them and today
we know that you can also
develop in the school that are that
children and young people learn to
know themselves that they know how to work
in team that are sure of themselves
that they know how to speak in public that they know
expressing all that will allow us a
very deep change in this allow them
I tell a story like
many of you I had the fortune to go
to a school with an active focus and
very modern for its time and in that
school instead of homework what we
they left were research jobs
and I remember I’m talking about the
primary of a job that I decided
do it on emiliano zapata because
I have always been passionate about history and
Mexican Revolution
a job that took me weeks
investigate and draw conclusions and
then present the classmates and
Obviously, over time there is data
of which I no longer remember them
would you ask if anyone knows in
what year was the taking of chilpancingo
for example that was key during the
Zapatista revolution probably very
few remember it
in 1914 but that’s the least because
what matters is to understand in this case
because a movement arises as well as
developed and most importantly what
were the ones with the consequences for
mexico and that was the opportunity that
youtube to be able to learn to learn
through an exercise in reasoning more
beyond data that does not matter if you
memorization or you search in google and
appear at that time is the
transformation that we want to achieve in
the schools
by the way in this work also
I learned to read
and I learned to read and when I say this I do not
is that he has learned to read
I knew that words do but
learn and understand the content of a
text that is also a fundamental part
of the educational change that we need
have in our country
and speaking of surely reading all
you know andrea who from
here I send a very affectionate greeting
precisely girls like andrea is what
what we want with this transformation
educational children who are attentive
self-confident lists and
respectful
that is the transformation that we want
achieve and finally the fourth element
that all these changes and all these
transformations reach all
Mexicans and all Mexicans who do not
there are a few that we have the
scholarships for the students that really what
he needs us not to treat the schools
having some of first and others of
second but all the same as the
children and young people who have some
disabilities are included in these
schools and in this process of change and
so if you see if we put all this
like pieces of a puzzle and we see
that we can transform the
teachers through merit and we leave
back the 20th and the inheritance of squares and
we replace it with a system of merit
and of contest so that they can
develop professionally
we transform the organization of
schools and also their infrastructure
on the other side we have a new model
pedagogical that leaves aside the
memorization and emphasize how
you learn to learn and this we take to
all places is to say we do it
with equity and inclusion
we will have the biggest transformation
for our country which is the
educational transformation nelson mandela
said that the most powerful weapon for
transform the world is education
John F. Kennedy said that the development of
a country depends on the development of its
home
There is a Tibetan proverb that I like
a lot that says that a child without
education is like a bird without wings and I
I am convinced that the change and the
transformation of mexico begins with
the change and the transformation of your
education that we have to do all
together and that’s what it’s about and that’s what
I invite you to do it all together
many thanks
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