The individual's interest seems to be "more important" than society in today's world

The world has changed and we have changed too. About 20 years ago the most important thing in the entire world was the family. Our grandparents were worried about family dinners, family problems, family free time, etc. but now, all that has changed.

Nowadays we are worry about money, health, our own dreams, our own success, but what about the rest of the society?
In today’s society people is getting married really late and they are having children very late too. That is because they are giving more importance to individual interest than society interest. I am not saying that this is wrong. You have to fight for your dreams, for your life and for what you really care about. But the fact that you will care about your own things not necessarily mean that you can’t care about society problems or contemporary issues.

For example, today’s teenagers only care about having fun, go to parties or to earn money easily. The values of our grandparents are getting lost. Teenagers do not care about honesty, loyalty or solidarity, they just care about their own problems. A few years ago charity was something very important in our society. Nowadays we want to earn money just for buying cars, houses, toys, etc. We not even care about our studies. People are leaving studies a side because of money. When they finished school they start working almost inmediatly, so they do not go to the university.

If we want a better country we need to collaborate with it. We need to study at the university. That is the only way to improve poverty, hunger and all those type of things. The most important thing is to rescue our society values, they are the only thing that can help us to do things in a right way.

Why to Educate?

After the seminar, we left the room thinking about all this topics. I thought that the Education was a easy topic to talk about and it was not difficult to improve it. But after I heard all this specialists talking about how hard is to improve all this education problems, I realized that is not that easy, in fact is a completely difficult topic to talk about.

During the seminar Humberto Maturana said something really important. He ask the question, Why to Educate? If we think about this question we could realize that is the beginning of this discussion. I think the education is the base for everything. We start this process when we are very little. We start lerning whith our own families. They teach us how to eat, how to behave and what to do or not to do, but the most important thing that we learn from them are our values. Then, when we know all of this, we can’t stay there waiting for something. We must continue lerning, for example we need to learn how to express with other people, how to behave with my peers and how to communicate well. This things we should learn them at school. In school is the only moment where we interact with our peers and where we learn to respect to each other and to share with others.
During this process, is very important to have your parents near. They are the adults who have to guide you at home.

One of the most important problems in Education is inequity and if we don’t do something about it we would never have the education that we want to have. The Education is the base for all of the societies and that’s why we should care about it more.