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 but at the same time, devoid of values. And an instruction without values, leads to social and environmental destruction.

The choice is very old. Educate for life or train for work. Since the Industrial Revolution, education has been losing ground to instruction. Utilitarianism, pragmatism and individualism, have imposed, over the humanist, spiritual and community senses. Education has become a business, directly and indirectly, and in means of subjugation and alienation.



In Mexico we have a millenary educational legacy, unique in the world. But due to the colonization processes, has been denied to the national education system for the development of educational models, closer to what we have been and are as a people. It is essential that teachers cease to import new theories, and instead, investigate and discover this educational legacy of which they are part, to improve their professional performance.