La sutileza como germen educacional copernícano

Abstract

As the school reforms, radical . as they may look, do not affectthe epistemology that supports it, it is not possible to achieve the desired quality changes for everyone. A copernican revolution is required that may allow it to be really educational, overcoming the monopoly which values the educational processes in its scholastic expression, the less efficaciousand efficientof alI. It is unpostponable "unschooling" the school, clean it from everythíng which is schoolish which avoids it to be educational, for instance, overcome the belief that learning is difficult and that only a few can do it adequately, contrary to the everyday evidence that the children learn well and without problems out of the school, simply because they do not know that learning is difficult and that the com plex matters are complicated. Education and "informal" learning stimulate the chaos and they orient themselves to the arder, according to emergent criteria which are subtle and uncertain beside the irnprovisations that self organize them fragmentary, endlessly, moving from the emergent order to the attractive chaos. However, the school stops the process when it forgets that planning is necessary before the class, as a lighthouse that guides at the distance, but not inside the classroom, and that the evaluation can not be supported on dichotomic values: to know or to ignore, to approve or to reject, that stiffen the learning process. The school alleges its Iimitations and simulates its potentialities. Education is a process of creation of possible relationships, enriched by the common sense and the fuzzy logic, meanwhile schooling corresponds to a process of repetítion of pre established relations, trapped in dichotomies: subject/ object, theory/practice, which as they uniform the process they deny the transversality and transdis ciplinarity of it, at the same time that they transform what is simple into superficial and what is complex into complicated because it is impossible to preview all the subtle nesses that accompany it