Schools and Repression

Since its creation, the conventional school was created with the one and only goal of reproduce in the kids the characteristics of the system, the establishment, and also generating some kind of projection of this system in the time. This is how different systems has been perpetuating since then, like, for example, the capitalism.

In this system, in which prevails the inequity in all aspects of life, the exploitation from the oppressor to the people and only for the obtaining of more money for their wealth accumulation, it turns essential the development of the school with the purpose of generating competent and capable of keep reproducing the system individuals, and, also, of keep generating the improvement and growth of it.

The special disposition of schools are clearly controlled to be a behavior modulator machine, a tranquilizer weapon for young people, and a massifier of special dispositions for the optimum development of the system, and a quick immersion of the of the individuals in this one.     

I think this is a very long, contradicted and complex theme, but I just wanted to make an introduction of what this the schools means to me.

About Infancy

We consider a kid, boy or girl, every person who isn´t already eighteen years old. That tells us that, for one side, childhood is obligatory, and, in the other side, that is insubstantial, because it ends from one day to another, from one day to another we leave being a kid, and start being an adult. That shows us that Infancy ends up being, therefore, a distinction purely age-based. However, in our daily life we use these concepts with a lot of different meanings.

We find out with a reality in which we should assume a role depending of the age that we have, in which we don’t have another chance more than keep reproducing the actual stereotype of an adult or a child. We should remember that language makes a big part of our reality, a reality determined from the meanings that we use to describe it, reality in which an adult becomes an authority of the child. He is the one than cans decide, give orders, punish, educate, and speak for him. Maybe that’s the reason that makes adults so different and opposite of the kids, because the concepts that defines them makes an immediate difference between the ages of each one.    

Walter Kohan

I don’t remember how I met Walter. I think it was about a year when I first led into his books. But here are some things I know about him. Walter was born in Argentina, but now he lives in Brasil. He is a philosopher. He did his PhD in México and his post-PhD in Paris. But now, he is a titular teacher of philosophy in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro… of course he is a philosopher! Now I remember that I run into Walter because I was doing a research of Philosophy for Kids, a kind of proposal for making authentic philosophy in the classrooms, making authentically questions and creating unique answers. I remember that I met Walter in a seminary of Philosophy for Kids that an organization, I think that of the university, was doing here, in Santiago. There, I had the opportunity to know from my real experience about the magic of Walter and the Philosophy for Kids. I think I really love it (and love him). If you want to know more, search him on google and you will find a lot of his interviews.

Cats and Dogs

Me and my friends think that, in general, there are two kind of persons: the catty ones, and the doggy ones. The first ones, act like cats. They look serious, but in fact they are not really so much. They really make an effort to look mysterious, very reflexives, always thinking, and always suffering to. Or not suffering, but not enjoying too much with the banal things of every day. They are lonely, and move very smoothly around the house, or everywhere. Like cats. Doggy persons not. They are nothing smoothly. But they like to play, so they really like having dummy fun or getting dirty. Always enjoying or not complicating a lot with things. Things aren’t really bad. At least, not everything should be suffering. But, you know, and that it’s the rarest thing, cats and dogs tend to be together. They even feel attracted one to the other. We’ve try to explain that to us, but we just don’t understand. What kind of person you think you are? I’m a cat, you know? But I have a lot of doggy friends.

Beatlemania

I love The Beatles. I remember that I have listened to them since I was like two years old. In fact, I think that I’ve been listening to them even before I was born. I think they are from the early 60’s, but I’m sure that it was in the years near to Woodstock that they became really popular. Before Woodstock they were already making history with a new sound in their guitar, new rhythms, a mixture of old music making a completely new thing. Simple songs in the first cd’s, very experimental music in their last ones.  I think that The Beatles are the best music group that humanity has had in the last centuries.  I must say that my favorite song of them is Blackbird, a song from the White Album, my favorite one. I’d like to share it with you, here it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxZhWCAuQw&feature=related

Tundra

I was born in Santiago on November 20 back in 1984. I have two younger brothers, and a couple of old ones. Mom and dad have been teachers for a long time, and I’m studying to be one too.

I studied in a school in Santiago Centro, and there I met some very good friends. When I leaved school, I thought that Dancing was a good career to study in the university, so I sign in the Arcis. But, the life told me that maybe dance was a wonderful thing to do, but not to study to. So I leaved that career. Then, I looked up my favorite things to do, and I realized that I really love reading, writing, poetry and everything it has to do with the art of words. So, I thought that studying Spanish was a very good idea. But, once again, life showed me that that career had nothing to do with what I thought. But, a very good thing that I have, I think, is that I’m a stubborn kind of person, so after I leaved the Usach, that was the university where I was studying Spanish, I had the fortune to find the career, this career, the one that I’m studying now.

In my free time, I love doing yoga. It really makes me happy to have the opportunity to do things with my body, like massages or bio dance. I think people don’t care to often to have a really good connection with them. So I try to do it.