ONE OPINION ABOUT EDUCATION

 I think that educationn is very important to make a better society. I'm worried about the changes that the different gouvernments have introduced in Spanish and Catalan education since 1990. I think that society has been experimenting a lot of technical changes which should improuve its health and solve a lot of its problems. But it's necesary to use this technical progress with care and intelligence, and unfortunatelly it, frequently, hasn't happened. Nowadays society has  a lot of problems which have been increasing because of the technical progress.
   I think education should try to solve some of these problems. I will explain it better: Children usually have got in their home too many technological things, which take all their attention and make impossible many times that they focuses this attention in a constructive way. Adults have the same problem too (too many thinks to do and to spend their free time...), so they don'y pay the necessary attention of their sons.
   School has an important thing to do in the society of nowadays, which I've just tried to describe in the previous paragraph. This important thing, in my opinion, is offer to children the opportunity to learn in a traditional and "less stimulating" environment than they usually know. For example, one of the main aims that the new autorities of the Catalan education try to achieve is learn to read an to enjoy reading too. The necessary environment to do that is a more relaxing school, where there is respect of rules and limits.
   In my opinion teachers have to try to motivate their pupils to learn, but this motivation should be planified in the time and not unlimitated. My point of vue is that if we spend too much time and resources to motivate pupils, finally they will be too excited and stimulated, and their necessary attention to learn or do something will desapear.
   Instead that, autorities tend to introduce modifications step by step in the oposite way. For example, in the high school they introduced two years ago the plan " one per one", which needs a lot of investments in materials and money. All the pupils had to get a labtop,  high schools had to prepare their installations and it was necessary to prepare in less time than reasonable a lot of new learning software.  And why? Was there an eductional investigation which recommends that? I don't know, and I'm not sure, but I supose that autorities did these changes because they wanted motivating more the pupils.
    I thing that in this moment a lot of educators, parents and autorities might doubt of the results of the program "one per one". These results, that I supose are bad, are because the main hypotese of the autorities are wrong: it's true that we have to motivate pupils, but if we introduce too many changes, pupils will be too
less concentrated, and teachers can be too in an unconfortable way, which don't allow to learn properly, to put rules and limits. Definitively there is the danger of reproduce in the school the bad environment which there is in most of the pupil's homes.