Education in Chile: the reproduction of socials inequalities.

The first problem that comes to my mind when I think in this topic is inequality. I think in this country that is the principal problem we have to resolve. The neoliberal system, implemented in Chile thirty years ago, impacted all the spheres of our society, and primarily the education. Actually in Chile it’s by means of the education that can be perpetuated the socials inequalities. (We have to remember that Chile it’s one of the countries with distributions more inequalities on the world. Considering the IPC, inequality between rich people and poor people it’s of 53 times. Our country it’s placed next to Zambia, Nigeria and Ethiopia in inequalities statistical. ) It’s incredible how knowing the social origin or “crib” you can know how many possibilities could have that person to ascend in his life. In Chile the social ascension it’s almost inexistent: rich people assure the life of his childrens since they are kids. They pay privates a school who offers a better education than public schools, so when they are young they have more tools for ingress to the university than people of down stratums. Well, if they didn’t learn in the school they could ingress to a private university where only you need pay it. The system for ingress to the university doesn’t’ measure flairs or abilities, it’s a filter of social class.

That it’s the reason why I think inequality it’s the principal topic that we have to resolve today if we want that education be a liberation tool who help to avoid the inequality, and not a inequalities reproduction’s machine.

Leon, The Profesional. A master Piece!!

There are so many good movies! I think I can’t say what movie it’s my favorite. But I will speak about a movie that I sow reciently and I really love it. It’s named Léon, The Profesional . It’s a french movie directed by Luc Bresson. The principal actors are Jean Reno and Natalie Portman (Natalie Portman looks very young in this film).
The plot It’s really simple, talk about a men who is a great hitman or cleaner. Hhe lives his own life alone in an apartment , do his work, spend his free time nourishing his plant (he describe it as his best friend) and watching old musicals in the cinema . Some day Mathilda, a twelve years old girl, arrive to his life… I will not tell you what happens later, that is not the important.

Really, is not a popular movie but I think it’s a master piece! The characters are so good done; the details of the movie are fantastics and touching . The wonderful of the movie is how it’s made, how the things happens, the rhytm of the movie is perfect and without realize it you are completely involved in the movie.

I recommend it!

This is the link where you can see it online!!!!

http://the-professional-film.blogspot.com/

BBC Learning English...

Visit this website it’s a very interesting and enjoyable way to learn English. I’m really glad to know it. You can practice grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation by different ways.

Personally, today I played in a pronunciation quiz; it has questions about sounds, symbols, similar sound, spelling, pronunciations and listened. I played in the easy level. Finally, the program told me in who items I was failing. After that I visited more quizzes and played crosswords about “flowers and plants”. I thought it could be more easy, but it was really difficult completed the squares. I must admit I gave up and look for others activities in the website. I played “beat the keeper” really I didn’t like so much that quiz, but I laugh very much. Finally, I discovered a category named “community” where you can read English blogs from students who are learning English from around the world. It’s a great way to practice writing informally!

Well, BBC Learning English it's a funny way to practice English. I like the website very much.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/

27/2/ 2010

The night when it happened i was in my home sleeping. I was alone with my parthner in our department in Quinta Normal. We live in 5th floor. That night we went to bed early because Saturday’s evening my sister-in-law was going to get married. When it started to shake, i wake up and say to Pablo –It’s trembling .He said –We have to wait to know if it is a earthquake severe. Just in that moment the movement get more strong, we get out of the bed, and stay together in the door frame. The movement was shocking…Across the window, we can see the sky full of lights like explosions. People out of my department was screaming. It looked like apocalypsis. I thinked the buildind was going to breake down. When the movement stopped, we saw all the things around us was broken or was on the floor: the fridge was in the livingroom,my cloakroom was on the livyng, the corridor was full of rubbles... It was all out of order! Finally we went to see the books-bedroom, finally when we see that all the books was on the floor we we burst out laughing and go to find a cigarrete.

First Post

Hi class! My Name is Francisca. I am in 4th year of sociology in this university, I live in Quinta Normal with my boyfrend. About my family, i have two sisters: Antonia and Rocío. Antonia has seven years and is in second grade, and Rocío has eighteen, she study psichology. This is his first year in this faculty (also she is in this clase) . I am learning to play piano, i like play guitar and see movies.
That’s all… bye everybody