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Education anywhere in the world is, or should be, not only a human right but also a strategic tool for the development of societies. So what happens when education has lost its way, or where education leads to economic impoverishment?

What happens when the purpose of education is to improve the quality of life of human beings in harmony with the environment, but to improve the efficiency and profitability of companies, although this human and ecological damage due ?


What happens when the strategic objectives of our development models are not equality, freedom and dignity, but depth reproduction and growth of inequalities based on wealth accumulation, or even generation new forms of slavery such as debt and drugs?

In Chile, the students chose to fight

In Chile, the student movement has clearly opted to fight this process.

In our country, it is not just that they are not guaranteed human right to education in our political constitution and economic freedom has a higher priority, but the design of our educational system was designed specifically to hold and play the neoliberal economic model imposed during the military dictatorship that began in 1973.

It is no coincidence that all the social movements that have risen in Chile, at least from 2010, we have all come to question our model of development.

What has happened is that people have realized that this model has not been able to fulfill the promises it has been making for over 30 years and has deepened inequality million left in debt and led to gain of a few at the expense of millions.

Chile has one of the highest levels of inequality in the world. According to figures SOL Foundation, a nonprofit organization that conducts research on the world of work in Chile, inequality between rich and poor has increased 46 times since the 1980s.

Since the 1990s, economic growth has been a productive 80% while workers' wages have only increased by 20%. Around 46% of the population earns less than the minimum wage (less than US $ 400) and two out of three people under the poverty line are employees.

The truth is that inequality has increased since Chile implemented neoliberal policies in place and fundamental rights are now the province of a privileged few. Because it does not have enough money to live, work force has been forced to borrow from private banks to finance education, health, food, clothing and basic services for their families .

Given this reality, which is never mentioned in official speeches about our "big" macroeconomic policy, it seems intolerable that education was not designed to overcome this inequality, but to reproduce and deepen it.

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