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"Universities are in a critical situation ... do not have money, they can select their students ... "

" About half of young people entering the University does not have the minimum necessary, need to be taught even to read and write ... "

" The problem is the lack of selection at the beginning ... The law stipulates that every young person who approves your matriculation certificate is entitled to continue their studies and enter university without entrance examination ... "

" Direct access is defended as the only guarantee of democratization of higher education. .. resulting in a great hypocrisy, because the selection will be imposed later the reality ... Other higher education institutions themselves select their students are the true elite. "

" Today is allowed a growing number young people without giving them real opportunities for success ... It is great that there are more and more college, provided they are received and that the diploma to get them to find a job ... "

" It's wrong to take as an indicator of the nation's educational number of students entering the universities ... It is not the quantity but the quality that should be taken into account ... The educational level of a country should be measured by two indicators: the number of students who find a job out of college, and GDP growth. "

" If China and India are developing fast, is because they have inverted in universities and because they practice a strong selection, which encourages students to do their best ... "

" The key word in the development of a country is a 'requirement' ... if in regions such as Africa or Latin America there are many problems and development is not what you wanted, it is because lack just that requirement. "

" The University can not help solve the problems of integration, discrimination, etc.., is this fight must begin in primary school ... is in elementary school where they taught the basics of what it means to live in this country, and teach the meritocracy, as la meritocracia es la base de la democracia .”

“Mantener esta situación [la de prácticamente regalar los diplomas de primaria, secundaria y preparatoria, y la de garantizar el acceso directo a las universidades] es pura demagogia, pura ilusión [dizque] democrática de que todos tienen acceso a la universidad.”

“Se está mintiendo a los jóvenes, porque no hay capacidad ni financiera ni material para ocuparse de ellos. Para eso hay que aumentar los derechos de inscripción [académicos y económicos, y sólo] dar becas a los que las merecen, porque el Estado no puede asumir todo.”

“En my country we like to make the revolution, simply check our history ... This is a country that hates the reforms and believes that democracy is a summary of the division between left and right ... "

" But a mature society faces reforms, knows that there are sectors that need them and stop simply categorize them as left or right ... The state of our University reflects the state of the country and is very worrying when compared with the way in which China and India take their own destiny in their hands ... This is politically incorrect to address these issues, is part of our taboos. "

" Politicians are afraid of students and universities. When trying to reform a bit, there are mass demonstrations immediately ... To the right will be very difficult to make the necessary reforms ... The left, marked by ideas close to Marxism and egalitarianism, has no vocation to carry them out. "

The above statements, which could have been made in Mexico by a Mexican smart, actually belong to the author of the book Jeunes, on vous ment (Young, they are lying) , Jean-Robert Pitte, who is neither more nor less than the President of the University of Paris - Sorbonne. At least, reflect an awareness of the situation that even remotely are showing the declarations and acts of the rector of UNAM, much more concerned in making AMLO wins in improving the quality of their university education, which for him is "excellent, the best in Latin America and one of the best in the world ... pride. " Good God.

Because, as I have said all along, to be frank it does not take French.

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The other day, during business hours, the deputy culture Tlalpan phoned me to ask for help with what he said was the top priority of his agency, "the defense of the vote." He said even he had spoken with Claudia Sheinbaum (do not forget who is the wife of former CEO at the same office and his resignation by appearing in videos with political prisoner Carlos Ahumada) thereon, and that he had been commissioned to organize a grand festival of the arts and music. I declined the invitation, an overwhelming cynicism. But I still missing the following lesson in democracy.

Last Sunday, without my knowing it until later, my name appeared in a political deployed against the IFE. When I found out that the charge was a scholar and renowned poet, winner of the National Poetry Award, phoned him to see how he could read my mind and get my signature without to mediate any movement or desire on my part. I said someone else, a third had sent my name to authorize the publication of my signature, without being able to remember the name of that person, and without having any importance that I have my own mail and my own phone, which the poet has used repeatedly.

I wanted to explain why the ideas of deployed seemed silly, but he did not need to discuss political issues with me. That is, one serves the intellectual left when she communes with, not whether he discussed ideas. He said that in addition, my name was not important in the deployed (as I had to Monsivais, a Poniatowska, etc.). Not to mention that adding an insult to what was already an offense, my name had been useful only to fill the space. Why not use invented names? Instead, why not simply use invented names?

is a deployed in the same paragraph "requires respect for the law" and only a few sentences later proclaims, "enough legaloides argument." Hundreds of intellectuals, supposedly useful to think, they could not see the contradiction, not realizing that we want to cure the same disease that they have strengthened (distrust).

Later she reconsidered and decided to send a poet a letter to the editor of La Jornada Semanal, explaining that it is very easy mistake to collect signatures and gives me the right (he to me, as if he could give me anything) to disagree with the whole ball of intellectuals who themselves are reasonable.

We addressed the following letter to the editor of La Jornada Semanal: Hugo Gutierrez Vega


La Jornada Semanal


Present Sir,

When we were kids, a friend said he always voted for the party most effective, regaled us door to door service: we did not go to vote for our vote counted.

Anyone would have thought that time behind us, and that no one can offer a service so complete. With amazement I see that it is not, as the supplement that you so rightly directed, magically makes me support causes that do not support.

As my doubts, let alone my opinions (which in electoral matters have always been different from Núñez and Camacho), would have no place in a paper like that compels me to this service, let me tell you at least the last time I wrote complaining about a cultural supplement was to Babelia, El Pais, that some years ago published the following headline: "The poet Hugo Gutierrez Lopez gets the prize." Too bad

now just need to complain to the poet that much respect.

Sincerely, Paul Boulton



PD Contrary to the claims Eduardo Hurtado, who now treats me "sir", to which I object categorically is to sign papers that I have not read, and the curious gather democratic method firms without rhyme or reason, to give a lesson in democracy.

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Consistency Letter to a friend

not surprising that those who are struggling just to give the state a more powerful role in all areas, are the same that constantly threaten it.

are those who always look at us with this serious word in the mouth: "Consistency."