Philosophy professor Ciprian Mihali, from UBB, writes about three essential elements related to the education of today’s citizens that the Romanian school does not have the ability, strategy and will to transmit to children: financial, digital and sexual education.
Ciprian Mihali talks about education in Romania. Photo: personal archive
In the context of the discussions about the reform of the education system, Professor Ciprian Mihali, director of the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of History and Philosophy (Babeș-Bolyai University), discusses three forms of education that he considers essential to today’s citizens and tomorrow: financial education, digital education and sexual education.
Unfortunately, the Romanian school does not have the ability, the strategy and the will to transmit them to the children, he thinks on Facebook.
“It is impossible for teachers, held by the state a life in precarity, at the lower limit of decency, at the threshold of poverty and social humiliation, to educate students in the spirit of market economy and capitalist finance. It is also aberrant to imagine that we can form future entrepreneurs and adults to go through the school. “Transmission of entrepreneurial skills” from ridiculous textbooks”, Shows the teacher.
As for digital education, Mihali claims that it fails as long as school courses are reduced to learning, not without difficulties, students how to create a word document or use applications two or three decades ago, from the time of computer science.
“It is not even that the teachers born in the analogue, that is, before 1990-2000, still think of the digital as an extension of the analog world (of book, teaching, catalog, information). It is about the fact that digital education means something other than this archeology of the computer world.”he details.
“Sexual education is the anxiety of hypocrites in Romania”
Mihali analyzes the situation perhaps the most delicate of the mentioned elements: sex education.
“Finally, but last but not least, sex education is the anxiety of hypocrites in Romania, who have discovered late sexual freedom, bitterly and often with violence and countless prejudices. Sexuality is still the great taboo of an sour and aged society in personal and collective trauma, and what to have access to this adults, and what to have access to this adults, and what they have. Information, at contraception, images and digital space can only be a form of moralist and guilty inhibition”, The teacher said.
From the banks of the Romanian schools, graduates are coming out with this explosive cocktail of educational deficit: financial, digital and sexual, he says: “Deficit that we are trying to adorn solemnly with comments to an uninteresting Romanian, with patriotism to a falsified history, with obscurantism to religion and, above all, with the toxic meditation doping.”.
The teacher believes that these are the three forms of education without which a young man cannot start alive today. “And which no one is able to offer as a systematic education, released by fear and ignorance. They are the three vital” skills “that today’s children depress outside the school so that they can survive in a society dominated by rigid and selfish adults.”he concludes.
“Sexual education in Romania is a joke”
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“I would score at least two other missing critical aspects: the first is the study of logic and the formation of critical thinking; the second is physical education. Yes, I know, the physical education hours are trapped in the program, but the reality is that many children do not participate, and even those who participate, usually play football/basketball/volleyball/handball, Not even when I go, not even to run or skip; Physical education, we have huge percentages of childhood obesity, we have cardio-respiratory diseases in children, we have reduced selection bases in any sport, and the list can continue … “
“The first two cannot be done in the mandatory state school. You have no teachers, no matter how much you pay them. In addition, most teachers and the intellectual environment in general suffer from radical anti-capitalism. And sexual education in Romania is a joke. The Romanian man solves his honor by killing the woman, not the rival.”
“If the current teachers are their deficiencies in these subjects, why not educate the teachers first? There are thousands of resources on the Internet who simply explain these things. Financial education does not make you an expert in stock or entrepreneur, but you have to make you understand the value of money and how they are produced, priorities in a family, etc. The Netherlands, very well made, some taught even at the hours of leadership (of tutors/leaders). ”
“This deficit is a heavy” burden “that the young people left to study outside the country. For this reason, they have to learn much more than their colleagues from other countries, not even not the basic notions in many fields. And most of everything they have learned in Romania,” they have only time.
