![]() Until now, high school students were obliged to study three related subjects: Philosophy, Ethical Values, and the History of Philosophy. “You can only discover the world of ideas by using rational thinking,” concludes Mesa as he ends his class.īut the latest reforms to Spain’s education system, known as the LOMCE, will see philosophy relegated to the sidelines. In just 45 minutes, the 17-year-olds in his class have received an introduction to the father of philosophy and begun to address the key questions about life. Mesa uses jokes and cartoons on the blackboard, and speaks carefully and slowly, regularly stopping to make sure he hasn’t left anybody behind. “He’s not like the other teachers,” says a student who is sitting in the back row of the classroom. Mesa, a high school philosophy teacher in the working-class Madrid district of Villaverde, is a man on a mission: to convince his students that his subject has a role to play in everyday life, and that anybody can get their head around philosophy. ![]()
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