Much has been said about knowledge, in this article I want to give you a different approach as part of a national development policy seen as a long-term process applicable to the education sector from its inception.
Much has been said - and will continue to be said - about knowledge and the role it plays in the society of the new millennium. Drucker, in his book The Post-capitalist Society, described it as the most important factor of production in the modern economy, displacing the traditional ones such as land, work or capital; He also explained to us how the generation of wealth and value occurs through productivity and innovation, both as the application of knowledge to that end.
In this article, I try to give it a different approach or see it from a different perspective, such as: the role played by the state as a promoter and designer of policies aimed at generating knowledge as a national development model applicable from its beginnings, that is, from the training of the person in their basic learning seen from a long-term perspective that substantially reduces the gap between "powerful" and "weak" in our society, as well as the concentration of economic, social and political forces in the hands of "large minorities "
Traditionally, the focus that has been given to knowledge regarding its application throughout history and today can be seen in two ways:
1) Knowledge of himself, expressed by famous Greeks such as Plato and later Socrates, that is, the intellectual, moral and spiritual development of the individual or as Protágoras maintained, that knowledge makes the person efficient, enabling him to know what he has to say and how to say it, this is through logic, grammar and rhetoric.
2) Organized and systematic knowledge applied initially to tools, products and processes; then with the productivity revolution applied to work seeking its speed and efficiency; and currently applied to knowledge itself as the dynamics of a new economic, social and political structure in modern times.
I would propose a third approach, on which I want to focus and consider it of utmost importance:
3) Knowledge as a model of a policy that promotes the equitable, just and necessary development of the human being for its self-realization in society.
Although it is true, in Latin America there is a higher quality education of recognized quality that includes subsequent studies of masters and doctorates, this knowledge is still in the hands of a minority that is unable to redistribute it in the rest of society. And I say this, simply based on the social reality that is observed especially in the countries of our region, where illiteracy rates and high rates of poverty and misery are increasing, with no sign of a solution around the corner, a situation that one has been able to feel since one has the use of reason.
The causes have been many and perhaps endless, the question that concerns us is what to do from now on?
What to do?
The first thing to do is face the problem with reality. From there, corrective measures should be established aimed at the development of the educational sector as an inexhaustible source of knowledge, applicable from basic education. It is at this point that the State has a fundamental role as promoter and designer of policies aimed at solving the serious problems of this sector today as a model of sustainable national development expressed in growth, well-being and high long-term life expectancy.; Perhaps we will not see the results in the short term, but in a reasonable period of time in the medium and long term.
How to do it?
As already stated, it is the State that must take the initiative in establishing policies that guide or guide the development of knowledge as a training base, that is, seen as a process that leads to establishing concrete and desired results, if possible subjects of being periodically evaluated.
The main guidelines to be established should be the following:
1) Work in association with sectors linked to the education sector, in permanent dialogue with parents, unions, teachers, and administrators; linked to the sector in order to discuss and create consensus on the solution to questions such as: where have we failed? What do we need to be better? What have we lacked? What have been our successes? What can we do to make this change?
2) Seek efficiency in knowledge through innovation in the educational sector, this means restructuring existing processes and methodologies to make the person hungry for knowledge apply it in their personal and daily life, paraphrasing Drucker "Today, It is no longer enough to teach patriotism, but to contribute to promoting citizenship, that is, the contribution of the person to their society and therefore to the country ”–especially minors.
3) Allocate more investment to the education sector, not precisely as a single contribution from the government (in Peru until 2001, the education sector only represented 14% of the national budget) but looking for sources of financing through strategic alliances with other governments, worldwide organizations dedicated to providing financing for the development of this type of projects, as well as with NGOs.
4) Decentralize knowledge by seeking alternative solutions, through adequate administration, either through external advice or through the subcontracting of organizations that provide services aimed at increasing the efficiency of the education sector in case the situation so requires. merit.
As a final contribution, I would like to express to you that it has not been my intention to address the internal problems of the education sector, but to establish guidelines that lead to greater viability of the education sector seen as a process, as an effective instrument in the generation of knowledge with a view to forming a modern, avant-garde country, highly competitive without the large gaps that exist today between people with great knowledge and those who do not have them or are not at the level of the first in economic and social prospects. I have established clear solution alternatives, hoping that this will change but working from now on, because perhaps when you read this article, you will prove me right.
