Only for those who speak English Social inequalities

By Mr. Roque Estévez

The years immediately following war world II constituted the great economic boom that during the last decades have motorized human work in its diverse activities.

The creation of the UNIBAC (a type of computer), as well as other technological instruments brought about a great blast of knowledge in all areas of it. That enormous explosion clashed since the beginning with the whip of economic inequalities widening the breach between the rich countries and the poor ones.

It’s true that the world richness has grown up rapidly in the last 50 years or so and that information technology has played an important role in that time. Nevertheless, I must say that the great human conglomerate dwelling in most of the African countries, not to mention Asiatic and Latin Americans have undergone and suffer the worst of a poverty that has decimated millions of its members.

The economic development with its marked inequalities has increased the need of focusing education toward that sector. And in that sense, form human resources available to be integrated with efficiency to the production of goods and services that contribute to the sustainable development; seen as a goal by all societies embedded in a global world and immersed in the neoliberal model.

The fast and frequent mutations that take place in the technologic field, call for in all enterprises a flexibility human labor well qualified. Moreover, the educative pertinence should be planted existing a truly interaction among industrial men, the production sector and the educative sector to determine the needs of the working world and the technicians and professionals to be formed.

The permanent formation is another demand of nowadays because in every area of knowledge many changes are being observed and human beings must be able to assimilate them and make them owns so they can handle new technologies and contribute to produce new and better goods and services.

The actual educational system should form human resources for innovation, capable of changing and adapt to a world of constant mutations. In other words, the distribution of cognitive resources though in an unequal form started this century as one of the machines of the sustain development. Unequal, because poor countries are lacking in resources that deprive them, in certain way, of the acquisition of knowledge which is indispensable for their development. The different needs as well as the lack of opportunities have made many qualified technicians and professionals to migrate from our underdeveloped countries to the developed ones and in that way, they contribute to widen the breach between poor and rich. President Bush once said “Thanks to Latin immigrants, the United States is a strong country”.

The leaving of technicians and professionals from our countries must be avoided diversifying the areas of formation in the different fields of knowledge. Today our universities are full of students in the branch of education, but think, dear reader, about the budget for that important sector. That’s why it is not weird to see in New York or other important cities many teachers selling tapes and in a lucky case, driving a taxi… See you next time.