Studies, something fundamental for the life of any person, we all must learn some things that are necessary for life, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, reading, history, geography, reasoning, to mention a few, over the years, the models and methods of study have changed and from my point of view not always for the better.

I remember that I attended elementary school in an experimental school, which meant that any model that the State thought of implementing, was used first in that school and in others of the same type, but there I consider that the fundamental pillar for my formation was first my mother and secondly the fact that I had great teachers who demanded the best from their students, I mention this because now with political correctness, from my point of view, we call good to bad and bad to good and we have allowed many things, not always good or positive, to invade and take over many spaces.

I remember that when I began to study high school, my education in that school helped me a lot, but my mother let me know the difference that existed between the model they used when she studied and the one that was used at that time, for example, at the end of the year they presented a final exam in which they could ask questions about any subject seen during the school year, that is, they really had to handle much of what they had seen during the year, In my case, they only gave us exams on the subjects we had studied during three times of the year, called quarterly, that is, every three months there was an exam on what we had seen during those months, and only if we failed the subject we were forced to study everything we had seen during the year to go to the exam in September, that is, we spent our vacations studying to take the exam without knowing what they could ask us.

Now, when it was my son's turn to study, much of this had already changed and quite a lot, first I think here as my friend @brujita18 the fact that children and young people of this technological age do not know what it is to have to research a topic in a book or having to go to a public library to find information, from my vision, makes them more lazy, does not motivate them to make an effort, because everything is at hand, just put the topic in the internet search engine and copy the first thing that appears, without even knowing if we are dealing with a reliable source.

In the same vein, having such easy access to information and being able to cut and paste, made me notice that sometimes my son did not even read the subject, that is, zero analysis and therefore zero or little reading, that alarmed me a lot and I remembered how my mother taught me to read and analyze what I studied, which I will always be immensely grateful, because it allowed me to have a critical mind, to be able to analyze a text and reach my own conclusions, For example, at home it was forbidden to study to caletre or textual, my mother said that if I studied that way, if I forgot a word I would be in trouble, so she always encouraged me to read several times the subject, to learn and then she asked me to explain in my words what I had understood, that is, it ended up generating a debate and she as the adult reminded me or insisted on which points were more important, clarified my doubts and made me re-read if I had missed something important.

Another thing that alarms me about the current method is that if the students who fail a subject are informed of what they must study and they have three opportunities to take it and sometimes they are even given the same test again before going on vacation, so that they can enjoy the vacation whether they pass or not, this from my perception is a way to teach them to be mediocre that everything should be easy and / or everything will come to their hands easily, when we know that life is not like that, that many, many times we must strive and struggle to achieve the goals we want.

In summary, I believe that education has changed and not exactly for the better, but it is up to the parents to put at home what is not in the school system, in order to give and form our children with those tools that they will need so much in life, so I leave here my participation in the Blog of the Month - May 2023, before retiring I would like to know your opinions about the current education.