Cheat Sheet for E10S02
Listen to the episode 10 here
- Richieri: The common name for the highway linking BA city to Ezeiza International Airport.
- UBA: University of Buenos Aires, founded in 1821 (not the oldest in the country, though, that place is for the University of Córdoba).
- About University Education in Argentina: it’s PUBLIC, FREE AND OF IRRESTRICTED ACCESS, only High-School diploma and DNI are required to sign up. There’s no payment for tuition, at all, except in post-doctorates.
- The origin of this system is a revolt in 1918, called “Reforma Universitaria”. It also involves a system of government in which teachers, graduates and students have a say in the administration.
- It has 320 thousand students, out of which 1 in 7 graduates.
Guests at the Chamuyo:
- Beatriz Comte, a UBA School of Philosophy graduate. She is in charge of the students exchange programs at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation
- Claire Meade Skotn, US College Student, who was in Argentina completing a thesis on “Bachilleratos Populares”, an alternative type of High-Scool education for adults, who weren’t able to take Secondary School.
- Julián Massaldi, UBA geographer, former tour guide, who works for The Working World, an organization that helps financially social-oriented businesses and workers-owned factories.
- Julieta Galván: UBA and UNC (Universidad Nacional del Comahue) graduate, Portuguese translator and teacher.She speaks of the Chilean system. This year is marked in that country by massive protests by students demanding Free Education. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera responded: “We don’t like State-ran stuff” and “Nothing is Free in life”.
- Speaking of that, some 3300 students came over the last 10 years in search of Free Education.
- Some of them organized themselves in a group called: “Chilean Students Exiled in Argentina due to Education Purposes”
- Jesús Núñez: UBA Sociologist. who speaks of the Private UADE University (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) being an example of a college that adapts its majors to the demands of the market.
- López Murphy: Ricardo López Murphy was an Economy Minister who attempted to cut the Public University budget in 2001. He lasted two weeks in his post, because of the massive protests.
- “Argentinos, a las cosas”: ”Argentines, do!”, the advise Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset gave to Argentina.
- “Juego de manos, juego de villanos”: “Handlabor, the game of villains”, says Beatriz, going back to that expression of Spanish colonial times, that shows the disdain of the elites of manual labor, as one of the reasons for a culture that is less focused on “doing”, and more on “thinking”.
- Max Weber: German sociologist who wrote a classic book in 1904 called “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, that is one explanation to the uneven levels of development in the world (it’s an alternative to other ways of explaining the world, like, say, Marxism).
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