Santiago

I came to Santiago to study in college, 5 years ago.  At the time I thought that Santiago was great but then I changed my mind, I could see the quiet of my last town was pretty good, really clear skies and star-filled nights. I like a few thing of Santiago but one of them is that we can find many things to do, especially in the cultural sense. Particularly you can find a lots of plays in theaters.

I dislike about this city is the pollution in every way. If we go to a hill of the city, for example: "San Cristobal", you can see how we are swimming in smog and noise pollution is terrible, especially in the center.

One change I would make is the installation of solar panels on all houses and buildings to start using solar energy.

The advice I would give to a stranger is that a couple of days visiting the city and then travel to south or north of Chile and see the real wonders of our country.

Why psychology

I would like to mention that this career was not the first, but I was studying engineering and it was there that I realized that although I easily did maths and physics, they were actually very boring, because in nothing changes the natural sciences, they are hard sciences, two plus two equals four, and there the subject ends. Then I found that I did not liked fixed things  and I wanted to study something that wasn´t "perfect".

I'm studying psychology because I am interested in the individual as an study object, because I care about subjective processes which people live, I'm interested to know why people do what they do or at least try to understand. Professionals in this area should contribute to society in building a critical spirit that questions the current order and seek a diferent tomorrow. The tools needed for professionals from this area are variable, but I think a couple of them are a critical conscience and knowing how to listen. I find it difficult to choose a favorite subject, I prefer to omit it

The Strike

The reasons to strike is to support a national mobilization regarding the demand for a free education, dignified and quality in it. In that sense it is an illusion to claim gains just by being radically mobilized, but they have earned profits in both grants and loans. On the other hand it is a reality that there is a detriment in the learning process because of the failure to attend classes, but I support that if people are really interested in a subject or knowledge, the classroom is not going to be an impediment to ask teachers for reading texts and then undertake self-development. I really believe that a teacher is not necessary to learn, only requires the initial motivation, Information is available to everybody unlike in the past

Regarding the news, it is certain that it seems good that they promise more public universities for regions, I think that  Bachelet and the Concertación over the last 20 years of government won the distrust of a significant part of the population, including mine . Therefore, the truth is that I do not believe them.

School kills creativity

Just like Robinson I think the school kills creativity in children.

The current educational system is a normalization process in which the desire is create equal subjects equally useful for the neoliberal capitalist system in which we live.

Those children, who are medicated because they cannot be 8 hours a day sitting still and quiet, are not sick, they only have personalities and ways of being that are not compatible with the current educational system. In my opinion children are not sick, but sickened by not letting them manifest their approach on life, by not letting them express who they really are, not what others want them to be.

Comes into my mind that phrase that says: "Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."This sentence describes the current educational system, the PSU test as a form of entry to college is a test that measures" certain types of intelligence ", but the important thing is that it leaves out a universe of capabilities and intelligences that can not be measured on a standardized test.