Why educate?

Abstract

Editorial article WHAT DO WE EDUCATE FOR? Pedro Ortega Ruiz, Director of the International Network of Pedagogy of Alterity. There is a disturbing question that must be answered from the honesty of those who seek to form responsible citizens, that is, people who assume ethics as a rule of life. Who benefits or interests our discourse and our educational practice? It is evident that both in the discourse and in the educational praxis there has been a lack of critical analysis of what we are doing. We have taken our practices for good and we have assumed a pedagogical discourse that is supposedly democratizing of civic life. We have moved between the contradiction of helping the formation of autonomous and free people, on the one hand, and the submissive adaptation to the existing order, on the other.