What about the Education system in Chile?

First at all I will talk to you something about Education system in Chile, we have 4 levels of education here, “Prebásica” for children from 3 till 5 years, “Enseñanza básica” for childrens from 6 till 13 years old, “Enseñanza media” for teenagers (14-18 years old) and “Educación superior” for Universities, Technical centers and professional Institutes.    

 

In Chile people can choose, if you have money, between a Public School or a Private School. And If you choose a privet school, most probably you will find an education with more dedication, fewer students per course and have the opportunity to choose a specific educational line, or the teaching of a specific language. But nothing is completely good, cause you will find too high tariffs, and you will need to pay much more money than school is investing in you.

 

In the universities you can choose too between a public or private University. But here all is VERY expensive. And the quality is not linked to this. By other side the selection to enter to universities that are recognized by the government is not effective. The “PSU” is composed of 4 exams, Maths, Language, Science and History. And the results are highly influenced by the type of school where you studied (MONEY!) and if that specific day you woke up in a good mood (J) or just was your lucky day (J J J). And I think with my experience that to enter and keep in University are necessary not only your knowledge, you need skills like perseverance, creativity, power of frustration! And now unfortunately money.

 

I think it's true, we need accessible education, and we have to fight for it, but we also need to ask, what are we teaching, what we believe that children and adolescents should learn in this country. Where we learn environmental stewardship, where we are taught to think sustainably, where we find incentive to create new things and not be required to follow the established system if we can create a better one.

 

A SAUDI WOMAN WHO DARED TO DRIVE

This video tell the story of Manal al-Sharif, a woman in Saudi Arabia, that from a personal experience start a fight for the rights of Arab women.

One day Manal al-Sharif was driving a car in her country, a country where women don't usually drive cars. Result, she and her brother, were arrested. She by drive, and he by pass the keys.

After that, she received a lot of insults and threats through many socials web pages in her own country, but for the rest of the world she was a heroin.

The question is that in this country the law doesn't speak about cars and women, so this is not just a oppressive government , is the oppressive society, guided by religious traditions and  misinterpretations of the religious laws,  the principal problem.

Over time, Manal al-Sharif with brave Saudis women begin the fight for women's liberation, through the right to drive. With time Saudi women began to drive cars and finally in 2013 the government authorized women to drive, although religious authorities do not recommend according to them the fact that women driving is associated with increased infidelity.

Personally, I find it very difficult to size a society where women are devalued. However it is a reality. So I ask myself, what can we do?  How can we help?, cause it's difficult to influence when we talk about religious traditions. I think that religions are not healthy when they are imposed, secrete and especially when discriminate

 I need to express my big admiration, for all these women who has the value to be heard. All these women who open her eyes and fight to be free. But specially by all these Saudi women that nonetheless love their country and want to build on it a better place.

Movie Review

Name of Movie: Earth 2100

Describe/list/ outline the main themes of the movie.  (50 words) 

The more important problems presented in the movie were:

Misuse of energy resources: The movie presents the loss of many energy resources, for example the natural oil, which was over-exploited.   

Overpopulation: The movie presents not only the increase of population, it show we that lot of these people live in urban cities. So the population density will be increases.  

Climate change:  The movie show a lot of storm that destroyed and flood cities, like New York. Show the end of glacers too.

Write a review (200 words) of the video.  Highlight the importance of the movie’s information/ themes/ topics to your own personal experience and professional perspective.

The movie shows we cities with overpopulation, with people who try to move in there to do his life, and maybe that will be true.

Cities grown and grown and grown! Are we, the architects, qualified to make healthy and population’s cities? It will be hard, cause all days we have new technology, new incentives, that control and change the human behavior. So we need to prepare our cities for changes. I don’t know if an architect could plan at the same speed us the world system, but I’m sure that an architect have a lot of influence in the ways that a city choose to grow.

We must show the healthy way! I know it’s hard to do, but if we stop to create a “monster city”, we can use that energy to think, create and show a new form to live.

We need to stop to build with materials that have a high carbon footprint. We need to take care of water, air, animals and plants. But the most important is that we need to stop to created uncomfortable smaller houses for people who try to fight with the crazy world system, just by money. A city must be healthy to have healthy and happy citizen.               

List a minimum of three facts, pieces of important information or “other” from the video that you would like to remember and would want to tell a friend about.

1. NO MORE CARS PLEASE        ! If the movie shows me something is that all type of energy resource, which was not renewables, will be problematic. And if you think in a city with 10 millions of people, try to imagine the roads. It’s better to choose more healthy ways. For example the bicycle, public transport or just walk a little more.  

2. TAKE CARE OF RENEWABLES RESOURCE! The movie shows that we live today thinking that these are eternal resources. But for that we need to cultivate the wood, take care of water, not get dirty, etc.

3. THINK ABOUT NEWS GENERATIONS! When Lucy see her grandchild he think “I haven’t all the knowledge” It’s important to take care of the new child, maybe they will show we how to live.  

What about me?...

Well, if you will read my blog you need to know somethings about me. I'm an architecture student and I have "fought" for 5 years to approve all my courses. I hope to make someday like architect, the more interesting place to old people, a place where they can play, sing, paint, jump and all they can want to do… but safely.  

I'm from Santiago de Chile but I always have wished to live in a natural place. I’m really interested in endemic and wild animals, my father's legacy.

What about my vacations? ...

If you imagine that I have had a classical vacation, you are wrong. First at all my house was topped, where my mother worked as a veterinary too, so we had to find a place to stay for some time. At the last moment my brother  agrees to lend the house that belonged to my father. These house was closed for 2 years! so all January I was in a permanent war with all type of spiders! I had hideous dreams with  spiders for many days.

But not all was spiders. I have found some curious things. Some very oldest tarzan's films, a bow and arrows, with which I had fun for many days too. 

In February I worked to pay my tenrollment and my remaining days I took my time to see series like "the Tudors" and "Downton Abbey", cause  I really like the British series of epoch.

In these moment I have under control the crazy spiders, I have seen many series, like "Sense and sensibility", "Robin Hood", "Emma", "Northanger abbey", and many more. And with the bow i have improved a lot.