Reflections

 Regarding the quintessence of bank banditry
 Regarding Bells that are not Heard
 Regarding school rigor and repetition

Regarding the quintessence of bank banditry

Said without hypocrisy, vulture funds are financial groups that constitute the highest point and the quintessence of bank banditry. They are not investment funds nor are subject to international norms and procedures. They are unregistered funds not legally bound by international, multilateral, bi-national and even national, laws or legality. Naturally, all I am saying needs to be proved, and I shall do so. We should tell how funds appraise risks and assume the possibility of losing hundreds of millions as they work with the certainty that they usually succeed. The point is who is behind those funds.

Jean Ziegler Working Group Chief, designated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate on speculative funds.

Regarding Bells that are not Heard

Poor people’s reasons are wooden bells.

José Hernández (in Martín Fierro)

Regarding school rigor and repetition

Some people propose returning to rigor, the sole yardstick, the learning responsibility in the hands of each pupil, the effort in terms of “it is good for them to fail,” the discipline instead of easy success. They defend repetition as method because it assures a threat and forces children to learn. Those who think this way erase 50 years of sociology of education from the map and more than 100 years of pedagogy. It is proven, that that pedagogical system excludes those most socially disadvantaged segments. This system crystallizes inequalities based on the meritocratic myth. The reality is that this method rewards those with better family conditions and thus this leads to the expansion of inequality through education. The discussion is different: whether we believe that education must build a fairer, more just society or no.

Juan Carlos Tedesco and Axel Rivas