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The philosopher and pedagogue publishes

La marmelada sentimental

(Ed. Encuentro), a book in which he compiles his articles in

The Objective

in which he warns about the cultural hegemony of emotivism and its effects on democracy.

Josep Pla warned us that the tendency towards sentimental jam was spreading everything. What did he mean? Yes, he maintained that the characteristic of Spaniards is to bring problems to emotion, with which we end up loading them with intensity and making their solution difficult. Reason allows you to create certain distances with problems, while emotion leads you to live them too close. Serenity is a better counselor than hysteria. You think that emotivism has become a state ideology. Every time there is less reasoning and more emotional charges. For example, when it is said that democracy does not have to be spiteful. What is meant? Please argue it for me. The heart is becoming the political organ par excellence. For this reason, a serious bill is paid and that is that the sentimental jam smears everything.That is well known by the gurus of the parties. Are they gaining too much power? Things never just happen. The emotional argument is believed to be more direct and useful than the rational one. What I ask of a politician is to explain to me the why not to tell me how much he loves me. The fact is that this strategy works for them. In my view, it indicates a weakness of democracy. What are 'hedgehog identities'?

don't touch me, I'm prodding

. I have an identity and don't ever put it into question because I spike. It is a shield of one's own identity. There is a growing distance between what can be discussed in private among the group of friends and what can be expressed in public because one gets into trouble. In Spain, politicians are terrified of problems. Aren't they supposed to fix it? We have seen this very often. In that, Rajoy was the teacher. And Sánchez? After Pujol, Sánchez seems to me the most fascinating political figure. Theoretically, he is a man who comes out of nowhere and takes over the Secretariat of his party against all the barons. He has more faith in himself than in his own ideas and a great ability to always choose the profile that allows him to sell the product. There are many things to learn from Sánchez.You maintain that Podemos represents a new emotivist uprising of tears against logic. Yes. Also, I think she has peaked because her tears have been unconvincing. I have seen the brilliant rise of Podemos, but the speech of "we do empathize with the one who suffers" is soon over. Don't assume what I feel. Will the pardons help to unravel the Catalan issue? I am going to tell you one thing that will not make me win friends among my friends. I wish Sánchez the best of success. The bet you are making is extremely risky. I don't believe in it, but I want to be wrong. Hopefully it goes well. When I say this, they look at me like I'm a traitor. The perfect ruler does not exist, but who would be the one who has come closest? In Spain,There have been great politicians and one of the important sins of our training is ignorance about them. In modern history, figures like Cánovas and Dato seem fascinating to me or Maura, who seems to me a true revolutionary. When the history of Spain is studied, we make a dramatic history of the problems and we lack the elements to be able to enjoy. Spain is the only country that lacks collective parties, where we can go out and say: "We are great!". We have local festivals, but we lack the collective ones and the celebration of the best moments in our history. Perhaps we should dedicate less importance to the ashes of 98 that were all day with which Spain hurt them. What I want is to celebrate it!That lack of generosity towards our history and that excess of sentimental jam takes its toll on us. Do schools give more importance to emotional education than intellectual? In life it is important to bite yourself on the lip and move on without having to complain. My first consideration towards a strong emotion is the possibility of shutting it up. There is an emotional incontinence, but the emotions cannot organize themselves. They need some principle to order them and that principle has to be moral. You claim that the school has replaced Rousseau with Greta Thunberg. Rousseau is the most complex and contradictory philosopher. Each one finds in him what he wants. That idea that we are born good and society corrupts us.In all educational laws it is said that the purpose of education is to develop all the skills of the child. But there are some skills that should be repressed, such as putting your fingers in the sockets. But now it is not possible to speak of repressions. Do children live enclosed in aseptic bubbles? The child who has not had any risk has not had a childhood. The children have run out of adventures. We take them where we take them they have to be under the direct supervision of an adult. We were all day on the street doing tricks. Have you ever thought about the strategic thinking that had to be developed when you did a prank to justify it at home? To play tricks is to take risks and our children are living in such a supervised environment that they do not take initiatives of their own.Autonomy must be restored to them because what they are experiencing is not healthy. It is not the same to live an adventure in a forest with some friends than to go to a toy library to play. I put a movie on my grandson

Huckleberry Finn

and was shocked by every sequence. What other educational myths must be banished? We are witnessing a certain neurosis of family education. Parents are spending more and more time educating their children to read to them, to accompany them to museums ... And extracurricular activities are growing more and more. We need serenity in the face of complexity. Perfect families don't exist. There is no need to feel guilty for not being one. The first right of the child is the right to have calm parents. How is character educated as does the British pedagogical tradition? In the United Kingdom they have

college

where families with a lot of power take their children to have a hard time. We have seen it at

The Crown

. Building character has little to do with feeling humiliated, but it does have to do with the ability to cope with frustrations. Everything that is important is going to be an effort. There is a virtue that nobody defends now which is courage. It is not the virtue of the sergeant racket but the energy disposition that you have to put that energy at the service of any project. Have we created a squishy generation? Should we recover a bit of a heavy hand? Rather than a heavy hand, what is needed are clear ideas. I do not miss for my grandchildren the shoes that I received. Told today it seems like a drama, but in my time the shoes were the

Abc

of any child. They spanked us with some frequency and I don't remember it being a trauma either. I am not talking so much about the heavy hand, but about the fact that minors have to assume responsibilities. There are many children who fail in school because no one has helped them imagine what they can become. They do not have that illusion of being able to be. There are few satisfactions greater than that of the effort achieved. When we praise the intelligence of our children a lot, we run the risk of creating narcissists who, out of fear of failure, do not face problems. Wouldn't it be much better to praise their ability to work? Before, it was the parents who exercised authority, but now they don't want to be the bad cops and the children end up having two mothers. The only thing that the father is not forgiven today is not being a mother.I have always defended the authority of both the teacher and the parents. The child needs strong allies in his house to help him fight the monsters under the bed and in the closets. That means that parents are also the ones you have to face when they set a rule for you that you don't quite understand, but that rule ends up having a therapeutic meaning. Blessed are the families that clash over arrival time! How bad are the families with rebels without a cause who do what they want and are protesting all day! That's the problem. Having clear margins to argue about is a sign of family health. In a family, parents are here to give the tabarra. And our children will judge us by the ability we had to give them the bar.The educator Maite Vallet maintains that going out of her way for the children is a mistake. How can you not go out of your way for your children and your grandchildren? They are the people for whom you would not hesitate to give your life. I am a great defender of the family, because it is the only place where they love us unconditionally for the mere fact of having arrived. Our children have to learn to love their parents by being aware of their defects. It is what makes us adults and allows us to have relationships with a certain stability because you can love the other being aware that they are full of defects. That must be learned at home.because it is the only place where they love us unconditionally for the mere fact of having arrived. Our children have to learn to love their parents by being aware of their defects. It is what makes us adults and allows us to have relationships with a certain stability because you can love the other being aware that they are full of defects. That must be learned at home.because it is the only place where they love us unconditionally for the mere fact of having arrived. Our children have to learn to love their parents by being aware of their defects. It is what makes us adults and allows us to have relationships with a certain stability because you can love the other being aware that they are full of defects. That must be learned at home.

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