I really love take care of the environment

Hi blogger friends! 

This week I’m going to talk about the environment. I think I’m a eco-hero because I really love take care of the environment, for example I use my bike instead of a car, my family and I have a lot of recycling habits like we take short showers and we don’t use plastic bags, also we only buy natural products like the other day I went to a fair where I buy a natural deodorant

I think this kind of habit should be learning in school, but the school prefers to pay attention to subjects like math’s and language. Family is important too, this is the first place where children learn how to coexist with nature.

I would like that people understand the importance of taking care the environment, but I think the only way to take that conscience is across school,  I’m going to be a teacher someday and I would like   to install this habits and conscience.

I think in my city, Santiago, people live their live of a stressful way and they don’t have time to think about the important things in life, they are worry about job and things like that, maybe we need to change the system to make changes .

So I invite you to think about the way you live your life, and see if there is something you can do to make from this world a better place to live. 

I read since I am a little girl. It always has been very handy; Mi uncle read me every night. We read stories
(my brother, cousins and me). I remember that in vacations we had to read at least a book. For me, that was always fun because I read what I liked! When I returned to school I usually read boring books. I think that reading is very important but the school forces you and that is very bad and sad because there is not motivation.


In the end, I always read books that I liked and not the books of the school. I lost my motivation for reading because I could not read “my books” and I had to read for obligation the “school books”.

With time again I started to like reading, for example this last time I have read many books. I like reading a bit of everything at the same time because I get bored reading the same. For example sometimes I read a book related to a fantastic story while I read a book that has to do with things like yoga.

Very recently a friend lent me a book called "La némesis medica" by Ivan Ilich. This is a very interesting book that is about how traditional medicine only handles to cure diseases and not focus on why we get sick. "It is a characteristic of this society industrialized people want to be taught, moved, treated or guided rather than learn, heal and find their own way." I really loved this book and it took me two months or so to finish it.

I would recommend it to everyone, I think it's always important to read about things we have to deal with every day.  

Privatization and educational inequality in Chile.

WRITTEN BY DAVID PEDIGO.

WEDNESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2011.

Editor@santiagotimes.cl.  Copyright 2011 - Los tiempos de Santiago

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/opinion/editorial/22998-privatization-and-educational-inequality-in-chile

In this article is questioned if implementing a tuition-free higher education system would be a smart policy for Chile. Perhaps the solution is a topic that has an origin elsewhere. What will solve the problems of Chile'seducation system if free university tuition won't do it?. For this this article consists of a more detailed analysis of the secondary school, universities, the voucher system, privatizing the education, etc.

The investigation by David Pedigo says that the inequalities of the education in Chile have origin in the socioeconomic inequalities. The problem comes from of basic and secondary education. Today is very big the inequality between the public and private schools and this is seen later in the university.

 Privatizing Education: In 1981 under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was set up a reform that set aside government subsidies of the privates and publics schools on the basis of their enrollment, this only allowed increased competition regardless of the quality.

A View from the Ground: David Pedigo visited many schools and universities of the country and the  differences are abysmal. The academic topic and the quality are very different between the public and private school with state contribution. There are few private schools where enrollment and monthly payment is 5 times more expensive than the average.

Attacking the Problem: In this article are shown a lot of national and international reserch from different years which show that inequality in the schools still goes on and we must do something about this, but the solution is much deeper than making eduacion free university, you must first improve things from the primary and secondary eduation.