THE HUMAN FACTOR (Social and Culture)

      During one of the classes, the Professor Ignacio asked the group, after inviting us to see the Faculty of Education, what we could say about our faculty and what differences we have from the rest. That morning, there were several cultural activities in the faculty, and the class, included the three of us, we mistakenly thought that the big difference was that our studies were more practical, with numerous team works, etc. We have now determined that this is not more than a tiny part of what makes us different with respect to medicine or law, for example.

We believe that the most fundamental aspect, which differences us from the rest of the faculties, is “THE HUMAN FACTOR”.

A surgeon must be right-handed with the scalpel and the architect with the plans and design. The computer expert must be with software. The vast majority of faculties work with materials, scientific, inert and artistic objects, etc.

We have as “working material”, like the students of psychology, with whom we share building, the people and, in our case, the children.

This study prepares us, with luck, to be able to educate hundreds of children throughout our lives, so the Human Factor is perhaps the most crucial aspect in our faculty.

The team work, the cooperative and collaborative work, dealing with the family theme, the educational models, the psychology of children, the activities and projects, in which the faculty works with, the volunteers etc. They are all means to achieve a goal. The aim is not only to have a teaching degree. This is not the most important thing and it doesn’t make better in teaching and more able to exercise it.

But the objective, by the approach of education that teachers give to each subject and the methodologies employed, is to continue to build ourselves as people. That the projects and works are collaborative and cooperative is only one more tool.

Once we get this, we will face a class with 25 boys and girls, in order to say: we know how to educate, not only in math or music, which is also important, but also in values. We know how to build healthy people for our future society, guiding them since childhood, so that they modify, improve and evolve our society in the future.

If we are not previously able to finish building us as a people, to use all the means and resources that our faculty has or to complete our EDUCATION with capital letters, with which moral authority are we going to teach children in a school?

Teaching is not a career to compete, as law or medicine, but to share. Through teaching we continue and improve the education received in the family and the school environment. We have to stand out from other faculties in our personal values, in the Human Factor, because it is that, to transmit those same values to the students, using as an excuse the language, mathematics, music etc.