Corruption, state problem for Sarmiento

And the Argentineans, in addition, we are used to live on the edge of the legal, transigiendo the rules, the violation of the commitments, to devalue the promised word, to justify any change saying that "we must adapt the times" and to live with fixed rules "is a thing of the past". According to social scientists, anomie is "the absence of norms or the inability of the social structure to provide certain individuals with what is necessary to achieve the goals of society."

However, to legitimize those of "stealing but doing", or to look away when we observe something wrong, visibly unfair or apart from the legal eternalization of the famous "Argentine ego", is not the behavior advocated by many of the "parents". of the homeland we usually admire: neither San Martin, nor Belgrano, nor Sarmiento, to put certain cases in suspense, have benefited from their military and political efforts. For his birthdayLet's stop at San Juan.

Sarmiento is always badociated, of course, with the founding of schools, with his pbadion for education. But why did he want literate, "educated" citizens? For that they can make better decisions! Know how to read and write come out of ignorance, to be able to communicate, to interpret a booklet or a map, to determine which machine is practical. Read also aware citizen press forms, "public opinion," said Sarmiento was the only moral reservoir of a nation, especially in the "working clbades".

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The schools then had for him an ethical background: to bring as much as possible "equal opportunities" and progress to all social strata. To train industrious, hard-working, orderly people with ecumenical values ​​was the task of the school.

In Popular Education (1849), his most beloved book, he writes: "Concerned by this idea, I have visited several houses of normal or particular education of women and in each of them I have always found reasons to feel the moral and social significance of introducing women into public education.Let me say that this issue of women's influence in the future of US companies has been one concerns of my early youth.

"The acts of the government which would require a long study are examined at the time of the elections" and, consequently, "the most fatal errors and the corruption of the most damaging ideas were born". This sentence written in El Nacional by Sarmiento in Chile in 1841 ends like this: "The most indifferent facts are twisted and acquire a fictitious interest presented by the spirit of the party, dressed in a garment that disfigures them. current press prevents the appearance of other more conscientious people, "accuses Sarmiento:" In election periods, "the party spirit" (ie research voters) favors lies, defamation and misconceptions, in order to defile the adversary ".

He also attacked the ancient monarchies Viceroys: "Mexico and Lima," he stressed, "were parodies of Spain's luxury, despotism, aristocracy, corruption, and ignorance. at that time, "and he promised to build a transparent republic. But these new republics had to rethink everything: in 1844, Sarmiento had finally warned the press: "We believe that the foregoing will suffice to prove that if it leads to something unmarried, the government must stop the proliferation of the priesthood. ; unless it is said that two and three are not five, or that the celibacy of the clergy does not diminish the population, which, to be true, would prove that celibacy is, more than useless, harmful and a focus of corruption & # 39; 175 years ago, the man of San Juan raised the voice in favor of the secular state and, without saying anything in the language, said that celibacy was "a hotbed of corruption".

Among many other things, he was also due completely change the social and professional role of womenHe saw her as a teacher and a moral educator for children, because "their jobs would relieve society of a heavy burden: to keep them as mere" domestic workers "and to protect themselves from corruption, begging and unemployment".

From there resumed the moral model of English politician Richard Cobden, as it was also seen in the mirror of Abraham Lincoln, who led – and died – to end slavery: with Cobden Sarmiento, he relied on the strength of the moral word that, through hundreds of acts and thousands of pamphlets a popular subscription elevated this pacifist to the rank of fighting for corruption and the British aristocracy. "With Cobden," said Sarmiento, "a new era begins for the world, the word, the verb, becomes flesh, producing the greatest facts by itself, now when men want to know if it is possible to destroy an abuse protected by power, defended by wealth, by rank, by corruption; When they ask if it is possible to hope to put an end to such abuses through persevering efforts and sacrifices they will be reminded of Cobden's name and they will begin the work. "