By ARACY PS BALBANI*
In our country, we are experiencing the result of the efficient and perverse practice of dismantling both education and public instruction.
One of the biggest headaches for domestic employers and large transnational companies is dealing with human resources. Many people complain that they are unable to fill job vacancies due to the candidates' lack of qualifications, because they are not interested in tasks that are not performed in front of a computer screen, or that newly hired employees quit on their first day on the job.
Owners of green areas know that it is increasingly rare to find gardeners who know and care for plants. The market is dominated by landscaping and gardening companies. Teams do not always receive technical and occupational safety training, use personal protective equipment (PPE) or have other labor rights respected.
Each service is provided by a different team, whose members even pluck aromatic herbs mercilessly, because they don't know how to differentiate them from weed species, or accidentally cut down tree seedlings without even apologizing to the contractor, in the rush to complete the project. mission given by bosses. What matters is not the life of the plants, the excellence of the work or customer satisfaction, but the outsourced productivity spreadsheet.
Anyone who needs to hire civil construction, information technology, hygiene and cleaning services or car mechanics also collects tragicomic stories. There are strange diagnoses – from the old fiction of the screwdriver to the contemporary “system instability” – budgets with exorbitant prices, waste of materials, damage to property, cases of drug consumption by service providers even in the workplace, and delays unjustified in the execution of tasks.
These problems are not restricted to occupations that require primary or secondary education. They also apply to higher-level students. With the outsourcing of public health services and the proliferation of popular clinics, for example, those who need doctors or dental surgeons commonly complain about the high turnover of professionals and the poor quality of care in these places. Human health is reduced to a wholesale commodity.
Back in 1790, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, who was a philosopher, mathematician and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of France, already defended universal and free access to public education, something different from education based on convictions. moral, religious and political values of the child's family. He proposed that the State act so that the student receives teachings and develops critical thinking, without imposing beliefs.[1]
We could venture that Condorcet was the pioneer of the legitimate non-party school, one that frees human beings through the use of their own gray matter. However, we do not guarantee that he would not be canceled in the figurative sense, or even have his CPF canceled by bullet if he repeated these ideas in today's Brazil.
In our country, we are bitter about the result of the efficient and perverse practice of dismantling both education and public instruction. The majority of young people and adults who are victims of the poverty of their families, violence, the incarceration of their parents, drug or alcohol addiction, have not been able to have the right to education, especially emotional education. Therefore, it was difficult to reach the end of a satisfactory public education. The most likely final destinations for these people are informal work or crime.
On the other hand, those who were fortunate enough to receive public education and education with good information content and high ethical values have not found recognition in society. Good professionals from different areas have been increasingly less respected and paid less. Any coach or hack influencers are more “viralized” and “monetized” than competent and honest teachers, lawyers, machinists, carpenters or doctors.
Perhaps this explains why so many teenagers prefer to dedicate themselves to betting on line and the production of videos for digital networks as a means of gaining prominence and money instead of attending technical courses, why so many professionals with degrees from public universities abandon their careers to become a juicer or anything else less humiliating and, also, why Brazilians are the ones who consume the most information from digital media and trust them.
According to research by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) carried out in 21 countries, published by Journal of USP, the average trust in these media is 9%, while in Brazil it is 20%. Brazilians are some of those who have the most difficulty identifying fake news.[2]
It seems that ignorance pays off. Especially for those who make political or financial profit by exploiting the gullible ignorant.
*Aracy PS Balbani é ENT doctor. Works as a specialist in the interior of São Paulo.
Notes
[1] Reis, Patrícia Carvalho. Public instruction in Condorcet's philosophy. Sofia, Vitória (ES), 2017, 6: 136-151. Available in https://periodicos.ufes.br/sofia/article/view/17251/13046
[2] USP Journal. OECD report shows that Brazilians are the worst at identifying fake news. Available in: https://jornal.usp.br/radio-usp/relatorio-da-ocde-mostra-que-brasileiros-sao-os-piores-em-identificar-noticias-falsas/
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