A few weeks ago we witnessed an unusual attack on UNAM, sponsored from the presidential rostrum, where it was pointed out that matters of social content, such as constitutional and agrarian law, were no longer taught, and that it had become gentrified and right-wing. A few days ago we noticed a second attack, now from the Concayt to the CIDE, whose attack is part of a campaign of harassment against its governing and academic body, until it reaches its student community.
The reproach directed at both institutions, whose academic excellence is fully accredited for anyone who takes time to analyze the rankings and reports, has not been able to be fully deciphered to understand what motivated it and what is being sought with it. .
It is possible that, knowing that the formation of new cadres in Morena has failed miserably, the President seeks that the structures of public institutions of higher education serve as support for his political project, becoming centers of ideological training on the fourth transformation and in instances of diffusion of the workerist thought.
It would seem that what is intended is to lay the foundations to establish a militant education based on the transmission of a single vision of the State, social relations, the role of the market and the function of rights, with academic programs aimed at understanding thought of those who exclusively militate in populism, and with managers willing to exert the corresponding pressure on academics to guarantee that they adhere to previously approved contents, with the purpose of nesting in our youth the nation project that they seek to root in the collective imagination , under the pretense of adding more and more wills to that ideological sum as a guarantee of continuity of a project designed to be deployed and matured within the following decades.
I agree with the requirement of a militant education. But for me, more than being conceived as an education based on a certain political ideology, it is one that is anchored in a decidedly democratic ideology. Militant education is, in this sense, an education for and from democracy. That is, an education that promotes and defends the democratic order, which, by definition, is a liberal order.
It is not unknown to anyone that the University is founded on the universality of ideas and the transmission of values that give us cohesion and unify us as societies. One of these values is pluralism, which is expressed in the ability to transmit knowledge from the broadest freedom, which is the freedom of teaching and research, provided that it, regardless of their biases and preferences, is based on the transmission of the multiplicity of visions and ways of thinking, whose knowledge and volume of authors contradict the single thought.
Perhaps for this reason, when education is defended, university autonomy is defended, as a quality that prevents political interests from dictating educational content and the way to manage and direct university communities. And freedom is also defended, as freedom to have political preferences or not to have them, and to openly express ideas and convictions, which only find limitations when academic self-determination seeks to promote an education of religious content contrary to the principle of secularism. or impose a political ideology aimed at indoctrinating the student body from the state so that it can later join the ranks of the party, in open contradiction with ideological freedom and political pluralism.
No government, not the current one of Morena or any other that becomes a majority, should have the capacity to dismantle democratic education under the pretense of installing an education from political militancy, in violation of the order of values and freedoms that protects the constitutional order. .
The UNAM and the CIDE must remain as houses open to all knowledge, all visions, ideologies and ways of thinking. Hence, those of us who make up their academic communities and militate in the democratic rearguard must be vigilant to combat, from ideas and with freedoms in hand, the dogma of single thought, fortifying universal, plural, critical, tolerant and conditional thought. social conscience.
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