Mosialos: We need a different school that produces active citizens with ambitions | GREECE

Elias Mosialos “struck” again, this time referring to the Greek educational system, but also to the goals it should have, especially during the period of the crown pandemic.

The government spokesman for international organizations to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and professor of health policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) has accustomed us to publish on the signs of the times. Especially for the treatment of citizens in the pandemic. In today’s post, he spoke about the state of the educational system and the goals it must set.

The post of Elias Mosialos

The following is the complete post by Ilias Mosialos:

“Education is one of the strongest factors in predicting the health and wealth of a country’s future workers. We focus on the safety of students and teachers, but in addition to the amount of teaching material, we must focus on problems real raised by the pandemic in our country with respect to education Let’s talk about infrastructure, e-learning, high tuition costs and the objectives of the educational system.

“A pedagogical system must focus on the exploration of knowledge and the creation of a critical approach and thought, while the lack of the possibility of a critical approach is seen in every crisis for a part of society. How do we respond as citizens to the bombardment of information in this pandemic, what does it show?

»It shows that we need a safe but different school. A school that will produce active citizens with ambitions. A school that will not primarily prepare students for admission to universities. We need a public education system that competes with infrastructure and technology in private schools. A school that will allow the daughter of a farmer or worker to have the same level of education as the daughter of a wealthy citizen. They will not have the same opportunities, because the first two parents will never have the connections of the third. But their children will try to fight with confidence and will come to define social inequalities.

This is the true bet of education: does it reproduce social, political and economic inequalities or promote equality? ”