My names is Andrès, I`m from Mèxico, and live here. I`ve been a journalist for almost 15 years, politics and justice are my favourite themes, even though I find everything interesting since I`m a very curious person. I`m also very pro human rights, I believe that the state should be able to supply its citizens their basic needs, a roof, food, health, education and a dignified job in order to each get an equal opportunity in thriving in whatever one chooses to thrive in.

Being very young, poverty always hurt me, made me feel bad, even without knowing or managing the notions of justice and equal opportunity. Growing older I started to grow in these and other concepts, suddenly realizing that poverty was our very trade in the global arena, our economy was, and still is but to a lesser extent, made up entirely on the offer of cheap labour.

For historical reasons, and mostly because our asymmetric relation with our neighbor the US, our undevelopment was in a way a fortitude, a way of making business, and acquiring knowledge. As if some sacrifice had to be made in order to achieve development, Mexico's relied heavily on its poorer classes for this, but there was also a very censored famine from 82 to 88, which added to our main exporting good, cheap labour.

When I started to look closer I found out that the state paid little to no interest in education from the 88 back, why will it?, we had a generation of undernourished population, around 75%, which because of their underdevelopment wouldn't be feasible for them to take advantage of education, first cheap hand work was our staple it doesn`t require´s much education, and then the famine made unnecessary investing in education-

This way I understood that human beings have arranged development of economies in a way that sacrifice is needed, the same way we chose war as our evolutionary means. So I came to the conclusion that for education to start being relevant for a country, the country needs to reach certain point of development which gives you the chance to switch to a much fairer system, this system being the economy of knowledge, a system where knowledge is valued, but in this system´s creation is the origin of a country`s own production, and production is the origin for new and healthier relations with other countries.

So, being creation the main source of development of a country, it needs good educational systems, and these educational systems need to nourish creativity and curiosity, so they also need to teach how to learn, I think this last is the most important task an educational system needs to accomplish.

So as Mexico grew development wise, the authoritarian regime started fading away, and education started to be taken much more in count by the state. Throughout a slow process educational standards for getting a job started to raise, jobs that needed educated people started to grow, dismantling of unions prejudicial to education, heritage of older regimes, started to be casted away, scholarships for Master's and PH degrees grew to the point that today receiving a scholarship for a Master's degree, sometimes is more competitive than the pay you can strive for in a job that either requires a degree or not.

I can tell all this because I just recently graduated with honours, from my Master degree in Social and Political Studies, from UNAM, National Autonomous Mexico`s University, one of the most prestigious Universities in the latin world, which is paid by the state, being one of the human rights my country now is able to fulfil each time in a broader way, still there is work to be done. but these facts show that we are transitioning to a knowledge based economy, a very good sign.

Not everyone has to do a Master`s or PH degree, now in my country people who want to start working as soon as possible have access to technical schools from which they.can launch a very successful career, either in Mexico or internationally.

Finally, since I got some time between my graduate title in journalism and my Master`s degree, I struggled with the new way of teaching, in which you are compelled to support your ideas, orally most of the time, and expose them to critique which puts one's ideas into question, and might compel you to nourish these ideas and nurture them, or defend them with solid arguments. This is a model new in México, schools never taught debate, neither worked on individual project based programs, education in México is a developing state investment, what this means is that the country is starting to count on its creativity, production, and quality of of handwork, giving people a better chance to have an equal opportunity in life, and choosing their own path.

My names is Andrès, I`m from Mèxico, and live here. I`ve been a journalist for almost 15 years, politics and justice are my favourite themes, even though I find everything interesting since I`m a very curious person. I`m also very pro human rights, I believe that the state should be able to supply its citizens their basic needs, a roof, food, health, education and a dignified job in order to each get an equal opportunity in thriving in whatever one chooses to thrive in.

Being very young, poverty always hurt me, made me feel bad, even without knowing or managing the notions of justice and equal opportunity. Growing older I started to grow in these and other concepts, suddenly realizing that poverty was our very trade in the global arena, our economy was, and still is but to a lesser extent, made up entirely on the offer of cheap labour.

For historical reasons, and mostly because our asymmetric relation with our neighbor the US, our undevelopment was in a way a fortitude, a way of making business, and acquiring knowledge. As if some sacrifice had to be made in order to achieve development, Mexico's relied heavily on its poorer classes for this, but there was also a very censored famine from 82 to 88, which added to our main exporting good, cheap labour.

When I started to look closer I found out that the state paid little to no interest in education from the 88 back, why will it?, we had a generation of undernourished population, around 75%, which because of their underdevelopment wouldn't be feasible for them to take advantage of education, first cheap hand work was our staple it doesn`t require´s much education, and then the famine made unnecessary investing in education-

This way I understood that human beings have arranged development of economies in a way that sacrifice is needed, the same way we chose war as our evolutionary means. So I came to the conclusion that for education to start being relevant for a country, the country needs to reach certain point of development which gives you the chance to switch to a much fairer system, this system being the economy of knowledge, a system where knowledge is valued, but in this system´s creation is the origin of a country`s own production, and production is the origin for new and healthier relations with other countries.

So, being creation the main source of development of a country, it needs good educational systems, and these educational systems need to nourish creativity and curiosity, so they also need to teach how to learn, I think this last is the most important task an educational system needs to accomplish.

So as Mexico grew development wise, the authoritarian regime started fading away, and education started to be taken much more in count by the state. Throughout a slow process educational standards for getting a job started to raise, jobs that needed educated people started to grow, dismantling of unions prejudicial to education, heritage of older regimes, started to be casted away, scholarships for Master's and PH degrees grew to the point that today receiving a scholarship for a Master's degree, sometimes is more competitive than the pay you can strive for in a job that either requires a degree or not.

I can tell all this because I just recently graduated with honours, from my Master degree in Social and Political Studies, from UNAM, National Autonomous Mexico`s University, one of the most prestigious Universities in the latin world, which is paid by the state, being one of the human rights my country now is able to fulfil each time in a broader way, still there is work to be done. but these facts show that we are transitioning to a knowledge based economy, a very good sign.

Not everyone has to do a Master`s or PH degree, now in my country people who want to start working as soon as possible have access to technical schools from which they.can launch a very successful career, either in Mexico or internationally.

Finally, since I got some time between my graduate title in journalism and my Master`s degree, I struggled with the new way of teaching, in which you are compelled to support your ideas, orally most of the time, and expose them to critique which puts one's ideas into question, and might compel you to nourish these ideas and nurture them, or defend them with solid arguments. This is a model new in México, schools never taught debate, neither worked on individual project based programs, education in México is a developing state investment, what this means is that the country is starting to count on its creativity, production, and quality of of handwork, giving people a better chance to have an equal opportunity in life, and choosing their own path.

My names is Andrès, I`m from Mèxico, and live here. I`ve been a journalist for almost 15 years, politics and justice are my favourite themes, even though I find everything interesting since I`m a very curious person. I`m also very pro human rights, I believe that the state should be able to supply its citizens their basic needs, a roof, food, health, education and a dignified job in order to each get an equal opportunity in thriving in whatever one chooses to thrive in.

Being very young, poverty always hurt me, made me feel bad, even without knowing or managing the notions of justice and equal opportunity. Growing older I started to grow in these and other concepts, suddenly realizing that poverty was our very trade in the global arena, our economy was, and still is but to a lesser extent, made up entirely on the offer of cheap labour.

For historical reasons, and mostly because our asymmetric relation with our neighbor the US, our undevelopment was in a way a fortitude, a way of making business, and acquiring knowledge. As if some sacrifice had to be made in order to achieve development, Mexico's relied heavily on its poorer classes for this, but there was also a very censored famine from 82 to 88, which added to our main exporting good, cheap labour.

When I started to look closer I found out that the state paid little to no interest in education from the 88 back, why will it?, we had a generation of undernourished population, around 75%, which because of their underdevelopment wouldn't be feasible for them to take advantage of education, first cheap hand work was our staple it doesn`t require´s much education, and then the famine made unnecessary investing in education-

This way I understood that human beings have arranged development of economies in a way that sacrifice is needed, the same way we chose war as our evolutionary means. So I came to the conclusion that for education to start being relevant for a country, the country needs to reach certain point of development which gives you the chance to switch to a much fairer system, this system being the economy of knowledge, a system where knowledge is valued, but in this system´s creation is the origin of a country`s own production, and production is the origin for new and healthier relations with other countries.

So, being creation the main source of development of a country, it needs good educational systems, and these educational systems need to nourish creativity and curiosity, so they also need to teach how to learn, I think this last is the most important task an educational system needs to accomplish.

So as Mexico grew development wise, the authoritarian regime started fading away, and education started to be taken much more in count by the state. Throughout a slow process educational standards for getting a job started to raise, jobs that needed educated people started to grow, dismantling of unions prejudicial to education, heritage of older regimes, started to be casted away, scholarships for Master's and PH degrees grew to the point that today receiving a scholarship for a Master's degree, sometimes is more competitive than the pay you can strive for in a job that either requires a degree or not.

I can tell all this because I just recently graduated with honours, from my Master degree in Social and Political Studies, from UNAM, National Autonomous Mexico`s University, one of the most prestigious Universities in the latin world, which is paid by the state, being one of the human rights my country now is able to fulfil each time in a broader way, still there is work to be done. but these facts show that we are transitioning to a knowledge based economy, a very good sign.

Not everyone has to do a Master`s or PH degree, now in my country people who want to start working as soon as possible have access to technical schools from which they.can launch a very successful career, either in Mexico or internationally.

Finally, since I got some time between my graduate title in journalism and my Master`s degree, I struggled with the new way of teaching, in which you are compelled to support your ideas, orally most of the time, and expose them to critique which puts one's ideas into question, and might compel you to nourish these ideas and nurture them, or defend them with solid arguments. This is a model new in México, schools never taught debate, neither worked on individual project based programs, education in México is a developing state investment, what this means is that the country is starting to count on its creativity, production, and quality of of handwork, giving people a better chance to have an equal opportunity in life, and choosing their own path.

Mexico`s Transition to a Knowledge-based Economy
Knowledge based economy

Knowledge Economy in Georgia an example thar resembles the México case