EDUCATION IN THE PRESENT CENTURY

Education must occupy a central role in our societies. They have not changed too much in the course of history, the peculiarities of our time make the answer more complex. First, we live in what has been called "liquid societies" characterized by rapid change, uncertainty and technological innovations. At a recent conference on education, the vast majority of the speakers highlighted the difficulty of preparing children and young people today for the labor market of the future, since the speed of innovations prevents us from knowing what that will be like. However, all these people agreed on something else: education has the fundamental role of equipping people with the capacities and skills necessary to develop critical thinking that allows them to face all those challenges that right now we cannot even guess.